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  • Carl von Clausewitz Any move made in a state of tension will be of more important, and will have more results, than it would have made in a state of eqilibrium. In times of maximum tension this importance will rise to an infinite degree.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Andy Rooney Anyone who likes golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Byron Nelson Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.
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  • Iris Murdoch Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Paul Gauguin Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
    Paul Gauguin
    French artist (1848 - 1903)
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  • Annie Dillard As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Bernard Goldberg As a matter of fact, you know, Jesus probably would be, except for one or two issues, a liberal Democrat if he were around today.
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • Arthur C. Brooks As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • Albert Camus As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Benigno Aquino III As far as same-sex marriage, I really would want to think about that a lot more given the fact that my focus would be always on the child. The innocent should not be given more even burdens than what is absolutely necessary.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Adam Jones As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
    Adam Jones
    American musician (1965 - )
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  • Nora Ephron As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
    Nora Ephron
    American journalist, writer, and filmmaker (1941 - 2012)
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  • Margaret Oliphant As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Barry Eichengreen As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.
    Barry Eichengreen
    American economist
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  • Bob Rae As I grow older, I have had to discard some ideas and policies because they no longer make sense. This strikes me as entirely healthy. I would invite others to do the same.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Preface, p. ix
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Ben Vereen As I laid in the hospital bed I started thinking that I had a show to do. I was hoping the Doctor would put me together so I could do the show.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Abraham Lincoln As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Boris Pasternak As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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