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Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage… — Margaret Atwood
I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind. — Zach Braff
One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been… — Robert Benchley
Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can… — Marvin Olasky
A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power… — Edward Abbey
I felt a curious thrill, as if something had stirred in me, half wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and strange and beautiful… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Because I always try so hard to win and had my troubles in Boston, I was suspended. At playoff time, it hurts not to be… — Maurice Richard
Why are you hitting me, there is nobody behind us! — Henny Youngman
Beauty is in the behind of the beholder! — Irwin Corey
Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes… — Bob Dylan
Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are… — Vikram Seth
We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to… — V.S. Naipaul
It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them. — John F. Kennedy
They asked me to go in front of the Reagans. I'm not used to going in front of President Reagan, so we went out behind… — Dan Quayle
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum. — Henry A. Kissinger
I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas.… — Henry A. Kissinger
Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level. Many of my male colleagues, when they go to the House floor, you… — Renee Ellmers
What is wrong is not the great discoveries of scienceâ€”information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong… — Archibald MacLeish
When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Â Behind him he has all the… — Mikhail Baryshnikov

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