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		Chivalry!-why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection-the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant-Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.
	
	  Walter Scott Walter Scott
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		You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from.
	
	  Jesse Jackson Jesse Jackson
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		Whate’er there be of SorrowI’ll put off till To-morrow,And when To-morrow comes, why then’T will be To-day and Joy again.
	
	  John Kendrick Bangs John Kendrick Bangs
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		I think 'Billy on the Street' is a big show, but why do a show if you won't make it original and unique and powerful?
	
	  Billy Eichner Billy Eichner
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		If you don't have your friends, you start to go a bit mad. That's why in the future I don't want to be constantly acting, going from one film to another. I just think it would be so very lonely to be away from your friends and family for so long and no proper kind of routine.
	
	  Dakota Blue Richards Dakota Blue Richards
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		I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure why I did it, but it's a pretty depressing state.
	
	  Laura Mvula Laura Mvula
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		I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.
	
	  Mark Haddon Mark Haddon
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		Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?
	
	  Abbi Jacobson Abbi Jacobson
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		The right question to ask from a Darwinian prospective is what was it about bipedalism that was so advantageous? Why did it lead to a - why did that adaptation ultimately lead to a species Homo sapiens that has come to dominate the planet today with six and a half billion people?
	
	  Donald Johanson Donald Johanson
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		Don't wait for answers, just take your chances. Don't ask me why.
	
	  Billy Joel Billy Joel
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		I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.
	
	  John Lee Hooker John Lee Hooker
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		According to our social pyramid, all men who feel displaced racially, culturally, and/or because of economic hardships will turn on those whom they feel they can order and humiliate, usually women, children, and animals--just as they have been ordered and humiliated by those privileged few who are in power. However, this definition does not explain why there are privileged men who behave this way toward women.
	
	  Ana Castillo Ana Castillo
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		I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens.
	
	  Georg Baselitz Georg Baselitz
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		Our interests are indeed common European interests, and the only way to serve them is by common means. That is why all Europeans, and all E.U. member states, have a collective responsibility to strengthen our Union.
	
	  Federica Mogherini Federica Mogherini
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		Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am!
	
	  Arthur Miller Arthur Miller
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		I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.
	
	  Alice Sebold Alice Sebold