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  • Booker T. Washington You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Lewis Carroll ''Write that down,'' the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Carolyn See 'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.
    Carolyn See
    American writer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling 'Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Buddy Hackett A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • W. H. Auden A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Peter Ustinov A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
    Peter Ustinov
    British actor, writer, director (1921 - 2004)
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  • Robert Benchley A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • James Thurber A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Thomas Malthus A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.
    Principles of Political Economy (1836) II, I, V
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Beverly Sills A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.
    Beverly Sills
    American operatic soprano (1929 - 2007)
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  • Rose Macaulay A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Carly Craig A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.
    Carly Craig
    American actress (1980 - )
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  • Edna St. Vincent Millay A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    American poet (1892 - 1950)
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  • C. S. Lewis A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bootsy Collins A roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the knucklehead things that you did, stuff like that.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • W. H. Auden A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • Bono Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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