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Quotes by American Authors

"Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened."
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Walter Cronkite
"Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened."
"To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo."
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Valerie Solanas
"To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo."
"Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss."
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Elon Musk
"Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss."
"The undertaking of a new action brings new strength."
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Richard L. Evans
"The undertaking of a new action brings new strength."
"There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs."
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
"There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs."
"Obstacles are just opportunities in disguise."
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Marie Forleo
"Obstacles are just opportunities in disguise."
"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress."
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Charles Kettering
"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress."
"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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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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"The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret."
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Henny Youngman
"The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret."
"The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions."
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Susan Sontag
"The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions."
"Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such."
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Kenneth L. Pike
"Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such."
"Creativity is just connecting things."
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Steve Jobs
"Creativity is just connecting things."
"If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism."
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Thomas Sowell
"If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism."
"Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries."
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
"Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries."
"The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it."
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Morgan Freeman
"The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it."
"You aren't learning anything when you're talking."
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Lyndon B. Johnson
"You aren't learning anything when you're talking."
"Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define."
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Ani DiFranco
"Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define."
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"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
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Thomas A. Edison
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
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Charles M. Schulz
"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
"It's not that we use technology, we live technology."
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Godfrey Reggio
"It's not that we use technology, we live technology."
"Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them."
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Louis Armstrong
"Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them."
"Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'"
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Jef I. Richards
"Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'"
"Truth suffers from too much analysis."
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Frank Herbert
"Truth suffers from too much analysis."
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"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard."
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Edgar R. Fiedler
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard."
"I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott."
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Sam Elliott
"I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott."
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"Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care."
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William Safire
"Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care."
"At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far."
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Muhammad Ali
"At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far."
"I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred."
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Tom Robbins
"I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred."
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"Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens."
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John Marshall Harlan
"Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens."
"A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars."
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Carly Simon
"A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars."
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"Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson."
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Elon Musk
"Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson."
"Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none."
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Thomas Kuhn
"Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none."
"Fighting for peace is not the solution,but loving for peace is the solution."
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Debasish Mridha
"Fighting for peace is not the solution,but loving for peace is the solution."
"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones."
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Stephen King
"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones."
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"The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance."
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Nathaniel Branden
"The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance."
"America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think."
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Jerry Garcia
"America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think."
"Violence is one of the most fun things to watch."
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Quentin Tarantino
"Violence is one of the most fun things to watch."
"The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants."
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Omar N. Bradley
"The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants."
"A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing."
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Alexander Hamilton
"A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing."
"I think it's possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."
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Elon Musk
"I think it's possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."
"I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it."
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Groucho Marx
"I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it."
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"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."
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Russell Baker
"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."
"A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested."
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Tom Wolfe
"A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested."
"Art is too serious to be taken seriously."
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Ad Reinhardt
"Art is too serious to be taken seriously."
Art,
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"There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time."
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Jill Robinson
"There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time."
"Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."
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Adlai E. Stevenson
"Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."
"The duty of youth is to challenge corruption."
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Kurt Cobain
"The duty of youth is to challenge corruption."
"I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood."
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Audre Lorde
"I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood."
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"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."
"The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people."
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Walt Whitman
"The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people."
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