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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Bernie Sanders While Donald Trump believes in huge tax breaks for billionaires, he believes that states should actually have the right to lower the minimum wage below $7.25. What an outrage!
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Alcee Hastings While few religious leaders and scholars would doubt the commonalities that exist among the various religious groups, the followers of these religions unfortunately struggle in their effort to peacefully coexist.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler While Fidel Castro used to deliver his marathon seven-hour speeches in Havana, Cubans used to joke that if Spanish lacked a future tense, their leader would be speechless. He was only fluent in broken promises, they lamented.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Abigail Van Buren While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Ray Kroc While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.
    Ray Kroc
    American businessman, founder McDonalds (1902 - 1984)
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  • Andrea Dworkin While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Samuel Johnson While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • James Thurber While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • James Tyler Kent While Homeopathy itself is a perfect science, its truth is only partially known. The truth itself relates to the Divine, the knowledge relates to man.
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  • Bruce Hornsby While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.
    Bruce Hornsby
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1954 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman While husbands and lovers in the stories [of the 14th century] are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous, lecherous, shameless, although not necessarily all of these at once.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Benigno Aquino III While I accept that there are certain things about my private life that will always be of interest to the public, it would be better if you give the same amount of attention to issues that matter as well.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Bennie Thompson While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.
    Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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  • St. Francis de Sales While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
    St. Francis de Sales
    Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622)
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  • Amartya Sen While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.
    Amartya Sen
    Indian economist and philospher
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  • John B. S. Haldane While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.
    John B. S. Haldane
    British scientist, writer (1892 - 1964)
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  • Bill Murray While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Barney Frank While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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