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  • Ben Jonson Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Art Buchwald Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Steve Jobs Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.
    Steve Jobs
    American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial (1955 - 2011)
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  • Bill Nye Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Jean Baudrillard Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • John Updike That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bill Goldberg That feeling is one of the things that keep me going. On July 6, 1998, I became the WCW heavyweight champion of the world!
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Gloria Vanderbilt That is the best - to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
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  • Boris Johnson That is the best case for Bush; that, among other things, he liberated Iraq. It is good enough for me.
    Daily Telegraph 26 February 2004
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • C. Everett Koop That is why we are working with these various groups that have volunteers. We can get a lot of these things done. Nobody has dropped out, and a lot of people would like to join. We now know what each other does.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Michael Harrington That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.
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  • Francis Bacon That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Belle Livingstone That winter two things happened which made me see that the world, the flesh, and the devil were going to be more powerful influences in my life after all than the chapel bell. First, I tasted champagne, second, the theatre.
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  • Bruce Springsteen That you know flag flying over the courthouse
    Means certain things are set in stone
    Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't.
    Magic (2007) Long Walk Home
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Alex Cox That's my curse, I see the politics within these things and so I don't say yes to them.
    Alex Cox
    English film director, screenwriter and actor (1954 - )
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  • Boris Becker That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Ben Barnes That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • L'Engle Madeleine That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
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  • Don DeLillo That's why people take vacations. Not to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
    White Noise (2011) 276
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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