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Mason Cooley

"Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth."

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Oskar Schindler

“Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen. I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.”

- Oskar Schindler

Source/Notes: After a day of Nazi Aktion roundups and executions of Jews in Krakow, as quoted in Schindler's List (1982) by Thomas Keneally, Ch. 15

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Ekaterina Gordeeva

“Family is always the most important part.”

- Ekaterina Gordeeva

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William Kapell

“Music isn't enough. Performers aren't enough. There must be someone that loves music as much as life. For you, and remember this always, those of us with something urgent to say, we give everything.”

- William Kapell

Source/Notes: Quoted by Claudia Cassidy, Chicago Tribune, October 30, 1953 [1]

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James Madison

“The most common and durable source of factions, has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold, and those who are without property, have ever formed distinct interests in society.”

- James Madison

Source/Notes: The Federalist no. 10 (1788)

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Jessica Williams

“I'm six feet tall. No one realizes that because on 'The Daily Show' I'm usually sitting.”

- Jessica Williams

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Paul Zane Pilzer

“The early pioneers of both wellness and network marketing were motivated by the sense that it was possible to create a better life than the conventional routes offered - better personal health and better economic health, respectively. Now the 'alternatives' of yesterday have become the economic powerhouses of today and tomorrow.”

- Paul Zane Pilzer

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Tarsem Singh

“I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?”

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Murphy's Law

“If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.”

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Channing E. Phillips

“Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.”

- Channing E. Phillips

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Norman Thomas

“Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.”

- Norman Thomas

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Rusty Schweickart

“It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.”

- Rusty Schweickart

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Roger McGough

“I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now.”

- Roger McGough

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Peter MacNicol

“Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if you don't know a lot about them.”

- Peter MacNicol

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Al Walser

“I started from nothing in Lichtenstein. The country is so small, and the only 'celebrity' type people who are from there are skiers.”

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George Tenet

“Iraq... has also had contacts with al-Qaida. Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides' mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible.”

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Pete Carroll

“Dancers work and they work and they work, and they master their skills so far that improvisation just comes flowing out of them. Their natural expression of the best they can possibly be comes out of them because there is no boundary to hold them back... That's the mentality that I'm trying to create, recreate and hold on to forever.”

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Alan Bean

“History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.”

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