Mikhail Bulgakov
Novelist, Playwright
"Foreign visitors . . . how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties."
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Visitors
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Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money."
Malcolm X
Civil Rights Activist, Minister
"I don’t feel that I am a visitor in Ghana or in any part of Africa. I feel that I am at home."
Denzel Washington
Actor, Director
"When you make a movie it's always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist."
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"Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors."
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"The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers."
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"Fish & Visitors stink in 3 days."
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"The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors."
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"Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on."
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"Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public education committed to the ministers of a particular one; and with more reason than in the case of their exclusion from the legislative and executive functions."
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"No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors."
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"I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country."
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"Certainly anything that is news or opinion needs to be free on the Web, because the Web is this very fluid medium that is very much driven by links and the flow of visitors through a discussion via links."
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"I feel like a visitor that got left behind by his ride."
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"Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy."
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"You make money when you get visitors to go through the entrance at capacity."
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