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  • Brian K. Vaughan After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Joseph Brodsky After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Edith Wharton After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Caroline Lawrence After I had written seventeen full-length mysteries, two volumes of mini-mysteries, a travel guide and some quiz books, not to mention a spin-off Roman Mystery Scrolls series, I thought it was time I moved to new historical pastures.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • William Shakespeare After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Barbara Deming After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Bob Ney After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new jobs, as well as address many critical transportation needs in Ohio and the 18th Congressional District.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Benny Goodman After you've done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.
    Benny Goodman
    American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909 - 1986)
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  • Charles Baudelaire All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Immanuel Kant All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
    Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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  • William Shakespeare All's well that ends well.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Alan Alda Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Edmund Burke Ambition can creep as well as soar.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bill Dedman American nuclear reactors are well into middle age. The median age of an operating reactor in the U.S. is 34 years, placing start-up in midst of the Carter administration.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • J. Bartlett Brebner Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
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  • Samuel Butler An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Thomas Traherne An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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