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  • Sallust As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
    Sallust
    Roman historian (86 - 34)
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  • Bianca Marroquin As the years went by, working on Broadway, I started seeing that I had a fan base and that they were mostly young girls. They are looking for someone that they can look up to, that they see as a role model. And I don't take that lightly; it's a big responsibility.
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  • Albert Camus As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent streaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness!
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Buzz Aldrin As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard that fateful day, I am reminded that they truly represented the best of us, as they climbed aloft on a plume of propellant gasses, reaching for the stars, to inspire us who were Earthbound.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Jean Paul As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • B. D. Wong Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Joseph Joubert Ask the young. They know everything.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Arsene Wenger At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
    Arsene Wenger
    French football manager and former player (1949 - )
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  • Ann Landers At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Bill Kreutzmann At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don't miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Billy Sunday At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.
    As quoted in ""Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ" by William Thomas Ellis
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Caroline Dhavernas At least, I'm very happy that it's going out on DVD because if it wasn't for the fans who signed this petition and were really ongoing about how they loved it, we wouldn't see this DVD right now.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Jean Baudrillard At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • John Donne At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Bo Burnham At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Angela Merkel At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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