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  • Buffalo Bill We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Dean Acheson We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
    Dean Acheson
    American statesman and lawyer. (1893 - 1971)
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  • Benjamin Jowett We have sought truth, and sometimes perhaps found it. But have we had any fun?
    Quoted by Geoffrey Madan
    Benjamin Jowett
    British theologian (1817 - 1893)
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  • Bernard Malamud We have two lives, Roy, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
    The Natural p. 152.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Bryant Gumbel We keep looking for some good to come out of this. Maybe it might help in putting race relations back on the front burner after they've been subjugated so long as a result of the Reagan years.
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Sigmund Freud We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a ''dark continent'' for psychology.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America - as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bhagat Singh We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime).
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Benjamin Watson We need to get our hearts straight. And after we get the hearts straight, we can treat each other straight.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • George Orwell We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Molière We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Ali Smith We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.
    (2012)
    Ali Smith
    Scottish author, playwright and journalist (1962 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • John Lennon We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Arthur Hugh Clough Well, I know, after all, it is only juxtaposition, Juxtaposition, in short; and what is juxtaposition?
    Arthur Hugh Clough
    English poet (1819 - 1861)
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  • Bruce Sterling Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Thomas Hardy Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be - and the non-necessity of it.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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