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  • Bruce Springsteen If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Benazir Bhutto If they only showed this much spunk when it came to containing the terrorists I don't think we would have such a problem.
    On being prevented from participating in a march for democracy and being placed under house arrest. TIME video interview (13 November 2007).
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Carl Levin If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Brad Holland If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Brendan Coyle If this TV success had come in my twenties and I'd become a heart-throb, I would have been very stupid. I would have got into a lot of situations that I really wished I hadn't.
    Brendan Coyle
    English-Irish actor (1962 - )
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  • Rita Mae Brown If this were a logical world, men would ride side saddle.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn If this were the last night of the world
    What would I do
    What would I do that was different
    Unless it was champagne with you...
    Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu (1999)
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Newt Gingrich If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, ''Candle making industry threatened''.
    Newt Gingrich
    American statesman and author (1943 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... ''Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.''
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Honoré de Balzac If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Orville Wright If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
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  • Hippocrates If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
    Hippocrates
    Greek physician (460 - 377)
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  • Ben Hogan If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.
    Ben Hogan
    American professional golfer (1912 - )
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  • Barbara Hale If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
    Barbara Hale
    American actress (1922 - 2017)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • E. M. Cioran If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Jimmy Buffet If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
    Jimmy Buffet
    American singer-songwriter and actor
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  • Bayard Rustin If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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