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  • Bobby Seale A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Ben Elliot A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.
    Ben Elliot
    British politician (1975 - )
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  • James John Walker A reformer is a guy who rides through the sewer in a glass bottom boat.
    James John Walker
    American politician (1881 - 1946)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Isaac Asimov A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
    Source: Eerste wet voor robots
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • Carlo Collodi A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.
    Source: Pinocchio
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Joseph Conrad A word carries far - very far - deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Bill Dedman About 100 firefighters a year die in the line of duty in the U.S. Heart attacks on the job and vehicle accidents on the way to the fires account for about half. The other half are traumatic deaths while fighting fires.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Ben Barnes Actually what I'd like is to have a reputation as someone who's been wild and gone straight, but without having to go through the trouble of being bad.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Ben Stein After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Helen Rowland After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Ralph B. Perry Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
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  • Edwin Markham Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
    Edwin Markham
    American poet and editor (1852 - 1940)
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  • Annie Dillard Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Marie Curie All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
    Marie Curie
    French physicist, radioactivity pioneer, 2x Nobel Prize winner (1867 - 1934)
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  • William Ellery Channing All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Robert Collier All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes and is ready to receive it.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Anna C. Brackett All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.
    Anna C. Brackett
    American philosopher and feminist
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  • Anita Roddick All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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