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  • Brit Hume In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Bob Graham In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those priorities.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • George Eliot In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Haniel Long In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.
    Haniel Long
    American writer, poet, journalist (1888 - 1956)
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  • Cameron Bright It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
    Cameron Bright
    Canadian actor (1993 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Malcolm X It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to wake up and understand who they are.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Buddha It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • C. S. Lewis It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him. We must not use the Bible as a sort of encyclopedia out of which texts can be taken for use as weapons.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Berthe Morisot It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.
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  • Agnes E. Meyer It is not more people that are needed in the world but better people, physically, morally and mentally. This question of raising the quality of our American population must also be taken into account in the question of immigration.
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  • Benazir Bhutto It is one thing being able to contest an election and to give the people hope that I can be the next prime minister. It is a totally different situation where the people of Pakistan are told that the results are already taken and the leader of your choice is banned.
    As quoted in I never asked for power in The Guardian (15 August 2002)
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • C. L. R. James It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Thomas Troward It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
    Thomas Troward
    English author (1847 - 1916)
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  • Theodore Parker It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
    Theodore Parker
    American minister (1810 - 1860)
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  • Barney Frank It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Benjamin Cardozo Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
    Lecture at Yale University Law School (1923)
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Georges Bataille Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Oscar Wilde Life is too important to be taken seriously.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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