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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India."

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Lamar Alexander Politician
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"Americans wouldn't do that [cashing out the same day]. Then they would be in the great old thing we used to call the marketplace. You know, we have hundreds of millions of stock shares floating every day. People buy them and sell them and trade them."

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Lamar S. Smith Politician
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"The INS, by their actions, is telling would-be illegal aliens that if you don't get caught entering the U.S., we'll look the other way so you can stay."

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Laozi Philosopher
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"When the worst student hears about the Way, he laughs out loud. If he did not laugh, it would be unworthy of being the Way."

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Laozi Philosopher
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"To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom."

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Karen Allen Actress
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"I feel as though I would be delighted to come back into working in the film world, and working in the theater world again. I'm just gonna see what happens."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"I couldn't kill myself. I would be afraid the minute I did it; something really good would happen and I'd miss it."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"There is no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things!"

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"There's nobody who would be willing to do an interview on a regular basis that you can't go and Google and find out what has happened to them in the past week. There's nobody."

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Orhan Pamuk Novelist, Screenwriter
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"Snow reminds Ka of God! But I’m not sure it would be accurate. What brings me close to God is the silence of snow."

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Larry Ellison Businessman
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"There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there.' That's utter nonsense...You climbed the mountain because you were there, and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like."

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