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  • Edmund Burke In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Aeschylus In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Alan Dundes In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bruce Forsyth In the old days, variety turns like me learned how to cope with failure - we all had nights when we 'died' on stage - but today's youngsters simply don't have that experience. For them, it really is instant make or break time - hence, all the tears and, hence, all the potential emotional damage.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • John Jewel In the old time we have treen chalices and golden priests, but now we have treen priests and golden chalices.
    Certain sermons preached before the queen's majesty (1609)
    John Jewel
    English clergyman and bishop (1522 - 1571)
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  • Oscar Wilde In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ang Lee In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Beck In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Aubrey Beardsley In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?
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  • Carl Gustav Jung In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Camille Paglia In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bjarke Ingels In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping malls. But you fail to exploit the possibility of symbiosis or synthesis that way.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Bill Hader In the U.S., it's like, you start with a great script, and then on set - not everybody, but definitely in the Apatow group - you go off, and you're improvising on camera. So while you're on camera, you're saying things that no one else has ever heard before during the actual take.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Brooke Burke In the United States, viewers don't get to see a lot of things we can show in other countries. We didn't get to show our naked Twister game from Wild On Jamaica, but we definitely filmed it.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Bill Kreutzmann In the very beginning we were a real tight family but now it's different. You know, toward the end, we had separate limos, stuff like that. It's hard to get six giant egos in the same place.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Bill Pascrell In the years since 9/11, more terrorists have been created through this President's policies than were captured or killed. There weren't any terrorists in Iraq in 2003, but there are now.
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Francis Bacon In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bruce Nauman In this case we're building a corner to stretch a fence and hang a gate. It had a real purpose in the ranch here. I needed to do this. But at the same time, it made a beautiful structure.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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