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  • Bert McCracken No matter how many times people try to pick my lyrics apart... nobody will really understand what these songs truly mean to me because I would rather not get into it.
    Bert McCracken
    American singer (1982 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Barbara Walters No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Thorstein Veblen No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.
    Thorstein Veblen
    Norwegian-American economist and sociologist (1857 - 1929)
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  • Aristotle No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Tacitus No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Margaret Thatcher No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  • David Hume No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish.
    Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Alva Myrdal Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Carl Hiaasen Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Brit Hume Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Lord George Byron None are all evil,
    quickening round his heart,
    one softer feeling would not yet depart.
    Source: The corsair 1, 12, 1
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Boris Johnson Not even Mr Blair has been able to erode the unions conviction that we all have a right to a minimum wage… Both the minimum wage and the Social Charter would palpably destroy jobs.
    Source: Lend Me Your Ears p387
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Anthony Holden Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • John Bunyan Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.
    John Bunyan
    British writer (1628 - 1688)
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  • Blaise Pascal Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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