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"I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training."
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Roger Bannister

"I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training."

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"I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running."
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Roger Bannister

"I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running."

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"I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to meet."
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Roger Bannister

"I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to meet."

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"I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs."
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Roger Bannister

"I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs."

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"I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy."
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Roger Bannister

"I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy."

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"I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career."
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Roger Bannister

"I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career."

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"I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin."
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Roger Bannister

"I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin."

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"I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit!"
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Roger Bannister

"I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit!"

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"If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside."
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Roger Bannister

"If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside."

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"I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days."
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Roger Bannister

"I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days."

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"Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is."
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Amiri Baraka

"Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is."

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"This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi."
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Amiri Baraka

"This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi."

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"There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes!"
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Amiri Baraka

"There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes!"

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"God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning."
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Amiri Baraka

"God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning."

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"A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money."
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Amiri Baraka

"A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money."

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"A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom."
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Amiri Baraka

"A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom."

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"To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass."
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Amiri Baraka

"To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass."

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"But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith."
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Anna Letitia Barbauld

"But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith."

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"The dead of midnight is the noon of thought."
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Anna Letitia Barbauld

"The dead of midnight is the noon of thought."

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"The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life."
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Anna Letitia Barbauld

"The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life."

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"When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!"
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Anna Letitia Barbauld

"When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!"

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"The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race."
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Lynn Barber

"The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race."

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"There's no recovery on Main Street, I can tell you that for sure. And in a re - in an economy like this, we don't need to be raising anybody's taxes."
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Haley Barbour

"There's no recovery on Main Street, I can tell you that for sure. And in a re - in an economy like this, we don't need to be raising anybody's taxes."

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"The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision."
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Haley Barbour

"The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision."

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"Big business has no party and never shall have."
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Haley Barbour

"Big business has no party and never shall have."

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"I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions."
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Haley Barbour

"I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions."

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"I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians."
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Haley Barbour

"I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians."

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"I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella."
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Haley Barbour

"I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella."

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"I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year."
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Haley Barbour

"I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year."

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"The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that."
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Haley Barbour

"The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that."

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"And should think freedom more to prize, than all the gold in world that is."
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John Barbour

"And should think freedom more to prize, than all the gold in world that is."

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"I see too deep and too much."
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Henri Barbusse

"I see too deep and too much."

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"It is not a woman I want - it is all women."
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Henri Barbusse

"It is not a woman I want - it is all women."

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"Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide."
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Henri Barbusse

"Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide."

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"He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?"
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Robert Barclay

"He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?"

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"Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works of righteousness and bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit."
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Robert Barclay

"Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works of righteousness and bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit."

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"So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative."
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Robert Barclay

"So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative."

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"My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that."
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Clive Barker

"My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that."

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"Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs."
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Clive Barker

"Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs."

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"It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical."
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Clive Barker

"It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical."

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"I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special."
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Clive Barker

"I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special."

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"Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this."
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Clive Barker

"Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this."

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"Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work."
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Clive Barker

"Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work."

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"What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once."
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Clive Barker

"What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once."

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"The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future."
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Joel A. Barker

"The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future."

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"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world."
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Joel A. Barker

"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world."

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"A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself."
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Joel A. Barker

"A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself."

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"Your successful past will block your visions of the future."
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Joel A. Barker

"Your successful past will block your visions of the future."

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"This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump."
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Charles Barkley

"This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump."

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"My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character."
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Charles Barkley

"My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character."

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