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  • Brad Wenstrup When I grew up, and I think about City Council, I look at the men and women then - these were people who just wanted to be a part of the community and give something back. They weren't necessarily trying to use it as a steppingstone to something else. I looked up to those people.
    Brad Wenstrup
    American politician, <a href="/wiki/U.S._Army_Reserve" class="mw-redirect&# (1958 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.
    A Grief Observed (1961)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Billy Idol When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll... something that acknowledged my ambition.
    Billy Idol
    English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor (1955 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bono When John Lennon sings, Oh, my love/For the first time in my life/My eyes are wide open — these songs have an intimacy for me that's not just between people, I realize now, not just sexual intimacy. A spiritual intimacy.
    Rolling Stone interview (2005)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bruce Schneier When my mother gets a prompt 'Do you want to download this?' she's going to say yes. It's disingenuous for Microsoft to give you all of these tools with which to hang yourself, and when you do, then say it's your fault.
    Stross, Randall (2004)
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • Buddha When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Adam Duritz When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
    Adam Duritz
    American musician and record producer (1964 - )
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon When the culture is strong, you've got this consistency where black people can grow up in these places with this voice just resonating about our special-ness in the universe. And I always say you're in trouble if you get too far away from that core that grounds you.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Bhagavad Gita When the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Bob Diamond When the U.K. or U.S. government issues bonds to fund a deficit, the buyers are not solely in the U.K. or the U.S. - they're in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Investment banks provide direct access to these buyers.
    Bob Diamond
    Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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  • Samuel Butler When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bruce Nordstrom When we go out to the university, the professors always say, 'Tell these students about your five-year plan and your 10-year plan,' and I say, 'Gee, we're lucky if we have a year plan.'
    Bruce Nordstrom
    American businessman (1933 - )
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  • F. B. Meyer When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.
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  • Ben Schnetzer When we were shooting 'The Book Thief,' I was keeping all these journals. And I remember talking to my mom, really trying to verbalize all the experiences I was having. And I remember my mom saying, 'Ben, reflection is a retroactive process.' When you're going through it, that's the time to just let it wash over you.
    Ben Schnetzer
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Carlo Ratti When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Carl Hiaasen When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Barry Schwartz When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.
    Barry Schwartz
    American psychologist (1946 - )
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  • Byron Howard When you work on these films for so long and so intensely, when you get to the end of them, suddenly there's nothing to do.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Henry Miller Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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