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  • Charlotte Brontë Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Mark Twain Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bernardo Houssay Production and consumption of carbohydrates is so well regulated that there is a constant blood sugar level; any accidental increase or fall in blood sugar is rapidly compensated.
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  • Bill James Professionalism in law has brought us the O.J. Simpson case in lieu of justice.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Henry Drummond Property has its duties as well as its rights.
    Source: Letter to the Earl of Donoughmore, 22-5-1838
    Henry Drummond
    Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer and lecturer (1786 - 1860)
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  • Abbe Pierre Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Boris Sidis Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the living corporeal individual.
    Source: The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Al Jourgensen Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.
    Al Jourgensen
    Cuban-American singer-songwriter, musician (1958 - )
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  • Ben Carson Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Ajay Naidu Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Dorothy Parker Razors pain you, rivers are damp, acids stain you and drugs cause cramp, guns aren't lawful, nooses give, gas smells awful, - you might as well live.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Dorothy Parker Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Bono Remember what John Adams said about Ben Franklin, He does not hesitate at our boldest Measures but rather seems to think us too irresolute.
    Well, this is the time for bold measures.
    Source: PENN Address (2004)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Pythagoras Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
    Pythagoras
    Greek philosopher (580 - 504)
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  • Bo Bennett Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Kwame Nkrumah Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
    Kwame Nkrumah
    Ghanaian politician and revolutionary (1909 - 1972)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair.
    Well the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere.
    We've got one last chance to make it real, to trade in these wings on some wheels.
    Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks.
    Source: Born To Run (1975) Thunder Road
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bobby Hatfield Rolling Stones, Beatles, we gave them all the break they were looking for. All they needed was a good opening act, and we went out there and performed as well as we could... over 15,000 kids chanting.
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