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  • Bob Schieffer But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Barbara Jordan But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Anne Tyler But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Bono But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Arthur Hertzberg But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Brian De Palma But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.
    Brian De Palma
    American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
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  • Sigmund Freud By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Socrates By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Bruno Walter By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.
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  • Robert S. Hillyer By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.
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  • Adolf Hitler By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Albert Maltz By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.
    Albert Maltz
    American playwright and fiction writer (1908 - 1985)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine By the work one knows the workmen.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Dorothy Thompson Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
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  • Charles A. Garfield Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a fork in the road and trying to go both ways by straddling it.
    Charles A. Garfield
    American psychologist and author (1944 - )
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  • B. W. Powe Canada is like several puzzles that we are all working on at the same time. Everyone has a part to add, but no one has seen the whole picture yet.
    Towards A Canada of Light Second Meditation, p. 128
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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