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  • Anthony Holden Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Camille Paglia Omen will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Red Skelton Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
    Red Skelton
    American actor and comedian (1913 - 1997)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Edmund Burke People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Abdullah Ibrahim People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.
    Abdullah Ibrahim
    South African pianist and composer (1934 - )
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  • Jean Baudrillard Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Plutarch Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Alan Dundes Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • C. Everett Koop Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Robert Hewison Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
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  • Augustus William Hare Poverty breeds wealth; and wealth in its turn breeds poverty. The earth, to form the mould, is taken out of the ditch; and whatever may be the height of the one will be the depth of the other.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Gloria Steinem Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Benjamin Hoff Practically everything from hairstyles to lifestyles is endorsed as some sort of drug to be taken Now for Instant Relief.
    Benjamin Hoff
    American author (1946 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Rape is an outrage that cannot be tolerated in a civilized society. Yet feminism, which has waged a crusade for rape to be taken more seriously, has put young women in danger by hiding the truth about sex from them.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Joseph Roux Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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