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  • Brock Fiant Most people know more about their congressmen via smear campaigns than they know about their own neighbor via conversations, and a lot of people know more about Britney Spears via tabloids than they know about their own congressmen via voting booklets. Does anyone else see the problem here?
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  • Mary Kay Ash Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
    Mary Kay Ash
    American businesswoman (1918 - 2001)
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  • William James Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Josh Billings Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Aaron C. Brown Most people wander through life, carelessly taking whatever risk crosses their paths without compensation, but never consciously accepting extra risk to pick up the money and other good things lying all around them.
    The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 3
    Aaron C. Brown
    American finance practitioner (1956 - )
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  • Josh Billings Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Barney Frank Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Suzanne Lafollette Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word ''human.''
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  • Bill Brandt Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.
    Bill Brandt
    British photographer and photojournalist (1904 - 1983)
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  • Finley Peter Dunne Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
    Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Rebecca West Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Mark Twain Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Augustus William Hare Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch; they may keep together some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, insulated peaks. So is it with great men.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Bill Kurtis Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Ben Hecht Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them - as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Bernhard von Bulow Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • Brit Hume MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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