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The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something… — Warren G. Bennis
If you want to live a long time, don't fool with nothing old but money, nothing big but a bank roll, nothing black but a… — Satchel Paige
Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty — Walker Evans
Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over. — Lionel Trilling
I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs… — Betty Friedan
People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil—soil consecrated in the blood of… — Douglas MacArthur
I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps. — Angela Carter
Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying. — David Antin
I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore. — David Antin
I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone… — Edward Abbey
In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl,… — Edward Abbey
Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you. — Edward Abbey
The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient. — Edward Abbey
Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure. — Zadie Smith
I'll sing over some chords, searching, what does [the music] conjure up, where's the melody taking you? I deliberate over the lyrics, I really do.… — Rod Stewart
America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed… — Edna Ferber
If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and… — Martin McGuinness
All you decent, well-meaning gentlemen, let me ask you, have you any idea what sort of place the world is becoming all around you? The… — Kazuo Ishiguro
I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I’ve thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill… — Douglas Adams
On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time - show that… — Katrina vanden Heuvel
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
In towns it is impossible to prevent men from assembling, getting excited together and forming sudden passionate resolves. Towns are like great meeting houses with… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down. — Mercy Otis Warren
And if we now cast our eyes over the nations of the earth, we shall find that, instead of possessing the pure religion of the… — Samuel Adams
Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. — Thomas Jefferson

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