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  • Bryce Courtenay Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for about five or six years and then I'd become a writer.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bono Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Ben Affleck After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ''I WANT TO SEE THE MANAGER.''
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Bob Beauprez After several trillion dollars of stimulation by the Obama Administration and the Fed, one might think the economy would be chugging along at a pretty good clip. But, it just isn't so, and the light at the end of the tunnel is pretty dim. Just ask a small business owner.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Barbara Deming After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.
    Source: We cannot live without our lives
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Agatha Christie Ah, but it is incredible how often things force one to do the thing one would like to do.
    Source: Death in the Clouds (1935)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Susanna Moodie Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
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  • George Bernard Shaw Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
    Source: Major Barbara (1907)
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Napoleon Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Ali vs. Stevenson would have served as a symbolic battle between the United States and Cuba, capitalism and communism: Castro's values instilled in his boxers pitted against the values of 'merchandise' boxers from the rest of the world.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bobby Vinton All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Honoré de Balzac All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Albert Speer All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no protection against them that we knew of. So the soldiers would have been unable to protect themselves against this gas in any way.
    Albert Speer
    German architect and Minister of Armaments during WWII (1905 - 1981)
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  • Gore Vidal All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Bruce Forsyth All kids love to get dirty, but if I wandered into the garage, my father would say: 'Son, you're not going to have filthy hands like mine. You're going into show business.'
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Earl Rochester All men would be cowards if they could.
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