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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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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And death was a soft thing, soft and black, cool and sweet and gracious. He slipped into it as a swimmer slips into the surf and it closed over him and held him and he felt the pulse and beat of it and knew the vastness and sureness of it.
Clifford D. Simak
