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  • William Lloyd Garrison My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.
    William Lloyd Garrison
    American abolitionist, journalist and suffragist (1805 - 1879)
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  • Bruce Dickinson My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Bobby Moynihan My dad is quite possibly the biggest Giants fan in the world. I believe he wore a Phil Simms jersey to my high school and college graduations.
    Bobby Moynihan
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1977 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason My father-in-law was a pilot. During World War II, he was shot down in a B-17 over Belgium. With the help of the French Resistance, he made his way through Occupied France and back to his base in England.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Alicia Silverstone My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex.
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  • Barry Marshall My favourite book as a child was an old 'Newne's Children's Encyclopaedia' which my grandfather had bought just before World War II and donated to our family after seeing how interested we were in it. Each volume had special chapters called 'Things Boys can Do.' My brothers and I would pick out interesting projects.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Bernard M. Baruch My fellow citizens of the world, we are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead.... Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work our salvation.... We must elect World Peace or World Destruction.
    Speech to United Nations meeting, 14 June 1946
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Brendan Myers My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was made available to the world for free. As a professor myself, I observed that the price of textbooks was too high for some of my students.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, ''There were but two families in the world, have-much and have-little.''
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Lord George Byron My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Peter Carey My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.
    (2004)
    Peter Carey
    Australian writer (1943 - )
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  • Bela Karolyi My gymnasts are always the best-prepared in the world. And they win. In the end, that's what matters.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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W. Bruce Cameron My main characters are the most sunny, happy, optimistic, loving creatures on the face of the Earth. I couldn't be happier that's where I start. I can put as many flawed people in the dog's world as I like, but the dog doesn't care. Dog doesn't judge. Dog doesn't dislike. Dog loves. That's not so bad.
    W. Bruce Cameron
    American writer and columnist (1960 - )
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  • Ben Harper My main concern when travelling around the world is finding a place to skateboard!
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Bobby Fischer My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They're not just persecuting me. This is not just my struggle, I'm not just doing this for myself... This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They're a menace to the whole world.
    Radio Interview, March 10 1999 [9]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Bob Seger My management tells me, Don't be optimistic, because it's the young people's world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you're a classic rocker. I don't know if you're gonna get the play.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • William Blake My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Angela Carter My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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