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  • Cass Sunstein In 'The Force Awakens,' women as well as men are in positions of authority. And you don't have to work hard to do that - it's not a statement, it's the world.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Campbell Brown In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the 'revolution' these schools brought about in many American cities as well as a parallel phenomenon, 'the charter pushback campaigns.'
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Baba Kalyani In 2006, the global economy was doing well. In India, the political and economic situation was stable. All key macroeconomic indicators reflected an economy that was in robust good health.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Confucius In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Cass Sunstein In a well-functioning democracy, people frequently encounter topics and points of view that they did not specifically select but from which they learn. Those encounters can change minds and, even, the course of lives.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Edwin P. Whipple In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.
    Edwin P. Whipple
    American essay writer (1819 - 1886)
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  • Ben Shapiro In actuality, California could be a wonderful place to live. In fact, if you're highly educated and ambitious, you can do quite well here while enjoying the sun and the fun. The only problem: California will then blame you for your success and recommend that all your cash be removed from you.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Søren Kierkegaard In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Bryant H. McGill In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Barry Sanders In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that's never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing?
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Sinclair Lewis In America most of us are still afraid of any literature which is not a glorification of everything American, a glorification of our faults as well as our virtues.
    Lezing bij aanvaarden Nobelprijs 12-12-1930
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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  • Henry Watton In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.
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  • Alain de Botton In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Bjarke Ingels In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Bernard Bailyn In England the practice of virtual representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 167
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Barry Commoner In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • John B. S. Haldane In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
    John B. S. Haldane
    British scientist, writer (1892 - 1964)
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  • Lord George Byron In general I do not draw well with literary men - not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Barry Marshall In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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