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  • Barbara Ehrenreich There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Edith Wharton There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Carl Van Vechten There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.
    Carl Van Vechten
    American writer and photographer (1880 - 1964)
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  • Fawn M. Brodie There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.
    Fawn M. Brodie
    American historian and biographer (1915 - 1981)
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma; I do not think so. Honest investigation can result only in growth.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant There may not be a Heaven, but there is a San Francisco.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Annie Leibovitz There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • William James There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Woodrow Wilson There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Betty Friedan There needs to be bolder thinking,... on how to measure the quality of life of men and women in the work force. Currently, success is measured by material advancements. We need to readjust the definition of success to account for time outside of work and satisfaction of life, not just the dollars-and-cents bottom line.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Benjamin Franklin There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Robert Frost There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Auberon Herbert There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Aaron Sorkin There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment - anywhere.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • William E. Gladstone There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Mother Teresa There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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