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  • Lyndon B. Johnson It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Henry James It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Armistead Maupin It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • W. H. Auden It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Alice Hamilton It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.
    Alice Hamilton
    American physician, research scientist, and author (1869 - 1970)
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  • Carl Hubbell It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.
    Carl Hubbell
    American baseball player (1903 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan It's cool because I think 'Ex Machina' is a little bit under the radar, which is always when I do my best work - when I feel like no one's paying attention.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Brandi Chastain Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again.
    Brandi Chastain
    American soccer player (1968 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Angela Carter Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Samuel Beckett Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Berkeley Breathed Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Plato Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Harriet Martineau Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Barack Obama Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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