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  • Berkeley Breathed That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Boris Becker That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Bob Edwards That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Evelyn Waugh That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Lisa Alther That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
    Lisa Alther
    American author and novelist (1944 - )
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  • Angela Davis That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Mark Twain That's what an army is - a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Barbara Hershey That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.
    Barbara Hershey
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Ben van Berkel That's what I love about Chicago... It is the staccato aspect of the skyscrapers. But the ground is very loose, very relaxed. It makes Chicago far more pleasant than other cities.
    Ben van Berkel
    Dutch architect
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  • Ace Frehley That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Doris Lessing That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Carlton Fisk The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
    Carlton Fisk
    American baseball player (1947 - )
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  • Marilyn Monroe The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Bhagavad Gita The abstinent run away from what they desire
    But carry their desires with them.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Bell Hooks The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Salman Rushdie The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Seneca The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Alfred de Vigny The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Albert Schweitzer The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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