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  • Bill Clinton They may walk with a little less spring in their step, and their ranks are growing thinner, but let us never forget, when they were young, these men saved the world.
    Speech on the 50th anniversary of D-Day at the United States Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France, 6 June 1994
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Thomas Brackett Reed They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
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  • John Osborne They spend their time looking forward to the past.
    John Osborne
    English playwright, screenwriter and actor (1929 - 1994)
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  • Carter G. Woodson They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • James Russell Lowell They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Benjamin Franklin They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Voltaire They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Bryan Robson They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn't either. I think they never stopped trying to put me in the same category. That was the road they went down with me.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Louise Erdrich They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Bernard Malamud They were together now in the vault under the tombstone; their ashes were, with the remains of those of their children who were not buried elsewhere, although all their names were incised on the stone.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Antonio Porchia They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • Bobby Fischer They're lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They're a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
    Radio Interview, March 10 1999 [8]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Bob Weir They're protecting an archaic industry. They should turn their attention to new models.
    Bob Weir
    American musician and songwriter (1947 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • T. S. Eliot Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Oscar Wilde Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Shakespeare This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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