Benjamin Franklin Quotes
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The public debate about evolution itself, as opposed to whether to teach it, is something else. It is boring, demeaning, and insufferably dull.
Ian Hacking
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I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
Olympia Snowe
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
Randall Jarrell
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Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.
J. Michael Straczynski
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I'm definitely more at ease with comedy - that's where I started out - and so it's my first love, so to speak, and I have more of a sensibility for it and more familiar with it. Having said that, I also want to be open to everything else.
Omar Sy
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Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
Barbara Park
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Makeup's just crazy, anyways. Native Americans used to wear it, and it did all right for them until, uh … well, until you killed them all, I suppose.
Eddie Izzard
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Edmund Burke
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There'll be the same old faces,in the same old places,where my youth was well misspent,but I toe the line and move in time,to a town called no regrets.
Robbie Williams
Take That
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One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.
Eliot Spitzer
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I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me.
Linus Torvalds
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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
Candice Swanepoel
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
Brown Campbell
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Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.
Natan Sharansky
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There is a huge business case for diversity. You will be making products for people you don't understand, you don't interact with. If you don't have an inclusive, diverse workforce, it makes you myopic.
Renee James
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He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.
Benjamin Franklin
