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  • Angela Davis When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Billy Graham When Christians say God has been talking to them about something, it simply means they have a strong inner conviction or feeling that God has made His will known to them.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Barry Lam When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical.
    Barry Lam
    Taiwanese billionaire businessman (1949 - )
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  • Boy George When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Camilo Jose Cela When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
    Journey to the Alcarria: Travels Through the Spanish Countryside (1964 edition), Atlantic Monthly Press
    Camilo Jose Cela
    Spanish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1989) (1916 - 2002)
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  • Bobby Seale When donors visited the Black Panther Party, they came and saw our real programs, a real clinic, with real doctors and medics, giving service to people.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Bill Griffith When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Alice Hamilton When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.
    Alice Hamilton
    American physician, research scientist, and author (1869 - 1970)
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  • Camille Paglia When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Marc Chagall When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.
    Marc Chagall
    Russian-French artist and painter (1887 - 1985)
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  • Brendan Behan When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Bob Uecker When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, ALWAYS.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Ben Schwartz When I do the roles, when I'm in the room and auditioning, I'll ask the director if they're cool with me adding stuff, or just improvising while we're doing it. And I would say, like, 90 percent of the time, they say, 'Absolutely.'
    Ben Schwartz
    American actor, comedian, writer and producer (1981 - )
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  • Bill Engvall When I drove up on the set one day, and they'd put up a sign that says 'The Bill Engvall Show,' I stood there for 20 minutes just staring at it. The director, James Widdoes, came up and said, 'What are you doing?' And I said, 'Look at this! There's my name on a stage door in Hollywood!'
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Byron Howard When I first heard that they were going to make 'Beauty and the Beast' at Disney, I was like, 'Oh, God, there's no way I'm going to see that movie,' because I knew what that movie was, was just two people sitting down to dinner over and over and over again. But then when I went to see it, it was like, 'Oh, they made it work.'
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Bob Newhart When I first started out, 'Time' magazine did an article on what it called 'the sick comics,' and they were myself, Shelley Berman, Nichols & May, Jonathan Winters, Lenny Bruce, and Mort Sahl. We were considered 'sick.'
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Caroline Wozniacki When I get the questions, I answer what I can answer. If they ask me about the match, I cannot really say that I like eating bananas.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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