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The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible. ↗

— George Burns

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I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it. ↗

— Carter Burwell

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I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked. ↗

— George Burns

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This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two. ↗

— George Burns

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We will not know unless we begin. ↗

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects. ↗

— John Burns

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I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how? ↗

— John Burns

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I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal. ↗

— John Burns

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In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience. ↗

— John Burns

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My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

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