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  • Matthew Arnold But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Barry Gibb But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Adam Schiff But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Bob Dylan But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • V.S. Naipaul But everything of value about me is in my books.
    Source: Literary Occasions (2012) 188
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Thomas Hood But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!
    Thomas Hood
    English poet, author and humorist (1799 - 1845)
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  • Robert Browning But facts are facts and flinch not.
    Source: The ring and the book
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Iris Murdoch But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Brent Scowcroft But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Barbara Walters But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • A. E. Housman But from my grave across my brow
    Plays no wind of healing now,
    And fire and ice within me fight
    Beneath the suffocating night.
    Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 30, st. 4
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Aaron Sorkin But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • John Milton But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Anne Brontë But he, that dares not grasp the thorn
    Should never crave the rose.
    Source: The Narrow Way (1848)
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Barney Frank But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Boris Johnson But here's old Ken - he's been crass, he's been insensitive and thuggish and brutal in his language - but I don't think actually if you read what he said, although it was extraordinary and rude, I don't think he was actually anti-Semitic.
    Source: Quotes of the Day, The Times, 18 February 2005, p. 2.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Bob Schieffer But here's the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can't. I can't even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don't get it.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Beth Henley But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • John Gay But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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