"Verbosity was an established Victorian trait." — Matthew Engel

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• The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be… — Hannah Arendt
• In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
• We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are… — M H Abrams
• We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces… — Ibrahim Babangida
• As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and… — Alan Ball
• Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. — Honore de Balzac
• If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It… — Brigitte Bardot
• Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours,… — P T Barnum
• Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of… — John Berger
• Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover… — Wendell Berry
• The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of… — Annie Besant
• I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may… — Edward de Bono

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