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  • Russell Hoban After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
    Russell Hoban
    American writer (1925 - 2011)
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  • George Ade After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
    George Ade
    American humorist, playwright (1866 - 1944)
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  • Bill Dedman After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. 'Let's install metal detectors and give guns to teachers' Let's crack down on troublemakers, weeding out kids who fit the profile of a gunman. Let's buy bulletproof whiteboards for the students to scurry behind, or train kids to throw erasers or cans of soup at an attacker.'
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Barbara Cartland After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Becki Newton After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats - and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and coercive the legislation was - a majority of Americans wanted the Supreme Court to toss it aside as unconstitutional.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg After you ride a roller coaster that's been going up for a year and a half, and you reach the pinnacle and then dive straight down with no gradual decline, it's a little disorienting. I didn't know how to take losing.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Rebecca West All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Bill Kurtis All vacations can come down to a few little moments - what do your remember when you're alone, totally relaxed and taken out of yourself to appreciate this other world.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Laurence Sterne All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Wilson Mizner Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • William Penn Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Bonnie Tyler Alzheimer's is a horrible thing. Some people are naive about it. They think, 'Oh it's just your memory,' but my mother was in terrible pain. Your body closes down. She didn't know if she'd eaten or if she wanted to eat. She couldn't remember how to walk. Towards the end, she didn't know us. It came gradually, then it got worse.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you - no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bill Gross Americans now know that housing prices can go down and they can go down by 10, 20, 30, and in some cases, 40 or 50 percent. We know they can go down. But five years ago, we thought they could only go up.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Bertolt Brecht And I always thought: the very simplest words
    Must be enough. When I say what things are like
    Everyone's heart must be torn to shreds.
    That you'll go down if you don't stand up for yourself
    Surely you see that.
    Poems, 1913-1956 And I always thought [Und ich dachte immer] (c. 19
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bob Dylan And I hope that you die
    And your death'll come soon
    I will follow your casket
    In the pale afternoon
    And I'll watch while you're lowered
    Down to your deathbed
    And I'll stand o'er your grave
    'Til I'm sure that you're dead
    The Freewheelin Bob Dylan (1963)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Al Franken And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.
    Al Franken
    American comedian, politician and author (1951 - )
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