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  • Mark Twain Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Edward Young Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
    Edward Young
    British poet (1683 - 1765)
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  • Bryan Batt Put every light you have on a dimmer. Because after a certain age, we can play with the lighting and set it on how you look best on it. It's cheaper than plastic surgery.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Butch Trucks Putting together two powerful sets is always difficult. After you really pour it out one night, it's hard to pour it out the next night.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bernard Crick Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 5, A Defence Of Politics Against Technology, p
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Umberto Eco Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Susan Sontag Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see?
    Trying to learn how to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be
    And after all this time to find we're just like all the rest
    Stranded in the park and forced to confess
    To hiding on the Backstreets.
    Born To Run (1975) Backstreets
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Maxwell Maltz Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Bokeem Woodbine Right around 2004 when 'Ray' came out, I made a conscious decision to be more discerning because I thought to myself, 'After something like this, I really have to try to be strong enough to turn stuff down.'
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Rise like lions after slumber in invanquishable number - Shake your chains to earth like dew which in sleep had fallen on you - ye are many - they are few.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Samuel Butler Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Aaron Klug Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Barry Sanders Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should take as much time as possible to sort through my feelings and make sure that my feelings were backed with conviction.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • John Irving Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.
    Georgia O'Keeffe
    American painter and artist (1887 - 1986)
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  • Ben Carson So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Arthur Hiller So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.
    Arthur Hiller
    Canadian-American television and film director (1923 - 2016)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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