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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use… — Laura Bush
Two people who I think have the world's most perfect skin are Cate Blanchett and Kate Bosworth. Maybe there's something to being named Kate, I… — Sophia Bush
I want to fix education in the world. As soon as I work on that, I am going to work on world hunger and then… — Nolan Bushnell
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence. — Samuel Butler
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence. — Samuel Butler
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. — Samuel Butler
Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are… — Samuel Butler
The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The… — Alvar Aalto
We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty… — Buzz Aldrin
Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape. — A. S. Byatt
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A. S. Byatt
I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his… — A. S. Byatt
In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the… — A. S. Byatt
Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world. — Robert Byrd
It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music. — David Byrne
Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into… — Buzz Aldrin
The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part. — David Byrne
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. — Lord Byron
Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living… — Lord Byron
Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people. — Lord Byron
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. — Lord Byron
There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have never given a moment's thought… — Sholom Aleichem
To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than that? What is… — Sholom Aleichem
My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a… — Vince Cable
We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector, where we've… — Vince Cable

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