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  • Vikram Seth An equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink.
    Source: Een geschikte jongen (1993) 171
    Vikram Seth
    Indian novelist and poet (1952 - )
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Billy Tauzin And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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  • Barack Obama And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending "don't ask, don't tell," making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bruce Springsteen And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Antony Sher As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.
    Antony Sher
    British actor (1949 - )
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  • Richard Whately As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, ''What is truth?''
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Cass Sunstein As presidents from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama have recognized, the real question is whether regulations, whether new or old, are justified. That requires a careful analysis of their costs and their benefits.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Andy Goldsworthy As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
    Andy Goldsworthy
    British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist (1956 - )
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  • Ayn Rand Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • John Stuart Mill Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Alexander Cockburn Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.
    Alexander Cockburn
    Irish-American political journalist and writer (1941 - 2012)
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  • Marguerite Duras Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Beth Orton Before you worry about what genre it is, about whether it's a loop or a drum, it's about what suits the song. It's using what's within your reach, but also reaching for everything you can. I don't know if I always get it right, because I don't know every sound yet.
    Beth Orton
    English singer-songwriter (1970 - )
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  • B. F. Skinner Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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