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  • Barbara Olson Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • C. S. Lewis Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • C. S. Lewis Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently He thought it worth the risk.
    Mere Christianity (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Anne Perry Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it seemed easy, then that would be the time to worry that I am on the wrong path.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • A.E. Hotchner Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.
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  • Brad Dourif Of course, I would like to play the guy next door, but nobody's going to hire me for that kind of role.
    Brad Dourif
    American actor (1950 - )
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  • Alan Moore Of course, Marxism is an example of what Carl Popper would have called a 'World Three' structure, in that it's got immense power as an idea, but you couldn't actually hold up anything in the world and say: 'this is Marxism'.
    Alan Moore
    English writer (1953 - )
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  • Adolf Galland Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Barack Obama Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Pablo Picasso Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Bill Watterson Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Song about my mother [Lied von meiner Mutter], fro
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Frank Sinatra Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.
    Frank Sinatra
    American singer, actor, and producer (1915 - 1998)
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  • Zelda Fitzgerald Oh, the secret life of man and woman -dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.
    Zelda Fitzgerald
    American novelist, socialite, and painter (1900 - 1948)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Billy Campbell On land, you can walk away from people, from unpleasant situations. But when you're on a ship for 14 months with 49 other people, if you don't resolve your issues it literally could mean - and this would be an extreme circumstance - the sinking of the ship. You learn a lot about other people. You learn a lot about yourself.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • A. E. Housman On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Barbara Cook On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.
    Barbara Cook
    American actress and singer (1927 - 2017)
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  • Angela Merkel On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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