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  • C. S. Forester The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki The media will build you up in a hurry but then, just as fast, will bring you down.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Billy Graham The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • William Hazlitt The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Carl Van Doren The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.
    Carl Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1950)
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  • Gregory Nunn The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It said simply: ''He kept down the cost and set the type right.''
    Gregory Nunn
    American golf player (1955 - )
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  • Maya Angelou The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Carter G. Woodson The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Caleb Cushing The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Bruce Babbitt The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the direction of the American economy is at complete variance with the reality of where the American economy is headed. I mean, it's like dinosaurs gathering to talk about the evolution of a new generation of mammals.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Brooke Shields The older I get, the younger I feel. Growing up, I was always the kid, but I spoke like an adult and was in adult roles. I didn't feel like a kid. The older I get, I actually feel younger! Which is good. I always thought when you get older, you'll want to slow down, but I want to do even more.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Richard Nixon The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • E. M. Forster The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Ayn Rand The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Bruce Springsteen The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • A. Whitney Brown The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
    A. Whitney Brown
    American writer and comedian (1952 - )
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  • Brit Hume The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Dan Qualye The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... and fight for what you believe in.
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: ''Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?''
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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