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  • Victor Hugo A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Aslan Maskhadov A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is.
    Aslan Maskhadov
    Chechen politician (1951 - 2005)
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  • Bill Dedman A foundation representing firefighters who die in the line of duty is calling for Congress to strip the Centers for Disease Control of its role investigating firefighter deaths.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Ben Affleck A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Elisabeth Gaskell A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
    Elisabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • James Monroe A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.
    James Monroe
    US President (5th) (1758 - 1831)
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  • Billy Eichner A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone's scared to take a chance. There's money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
    Billy Eichner
    American comedian, actor, and producer (1978 - )
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  • Bill Hybels A lot of spiritual gains come through pain, hurt, struggle, confusion and disappointment.
    Source: Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Brian Austin Green A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a couple of them just for fun. Eventually, I got an agent through a friend and I did some commercials; then I got Knots Landing.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don't feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.
    Source: The Meaning Of Life
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Garrison Keillor A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
    Garrison Keillor
    American humoristic writer (1942 - )
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  • E. B. White A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Henry David Thoreau A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Frank A. Clark A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.
    Frank A. Clark
    American politician
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  • Norman Mailer A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Augustus Hare A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Barry Ritholtz A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note it was not their family connections nor ties to Ivy League schools or elite banks, but rather the strength of their research, analysis and writing.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Bennett Cerf A pat on the back, through only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results.
    Bennett Cerf
    American publisher (1898 - 1971)
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