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  • Bobby Scott Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • William Cobbett Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of ''speculation''; but which ought to be called Gambling.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • Arthur Levitt Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. But, the fact is it's canceled only when the market gets the cancellation.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Mary McCarthy Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Anais Nin Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Angela Carter Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Tryon Edwards Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • A. J. Liebling Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • George Eliot Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Susan Sontag Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Samuel Beckett Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
    Source: Murphy
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Charles Baudelaire Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Sam Rayburn Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
    Sam Rayburn
    American politician (1882 - 1961)
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  • Nelson Mandela Any language can be the vehicle of racist insults and repression, but it can also be the carrier of the message of hope and liberation.
    Source: The Star, 19 september 1991
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Andrew Jackson Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Agnes Martin Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
    Agnes Martin
    Canadian-born American abstract painter (1912 - 2004)
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  • Bipasha Basu Any relationship should have love, and if there is no love, it is better to call off a relationship. People say that love happens only once, but I don't believe in it because for me, if one relationship doesn't work, you should move on and seek love in another relationship. Who knows; you might find love in the second relationship.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • Mark Twain Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Walter Benjamin Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information - hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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