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William B. Yeats
Irish poet 1865-1918

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I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
Eleanor Roosevelt
American "First Lady" and columnist 1884-1962

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
Germaine Greer
Australian writer and public intellectual 1939-

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I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
Albert Einstein
German - American physicist 1879-1955

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I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
Mel Brooks
American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, and composer 1926-

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I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
George Bernard Shaw
Irish-English writer and critic 1856-1950

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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
Adele
English singer-songwriter 1988-

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I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.
Richard Dawkins
English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author 1941-

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I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind.
Agnetha Faltskog
Swedish singer, songwriter and actress 1950-

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I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.
Huey P. Newton
African-American political activist and revolutionary 1942-1989

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I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.
Bruce Johnston
American singer, songwriter 1942-

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I never could get into The Chambers Brothers. They make good records, but I never could get behind it.
Ben Jonson
British Dramatist, Poet 1573-1637

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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind,
For else it could not be,
That she,
Whom I adore so much, should so slight me,
And cast my love behind.
Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio IX, My Picture Left in Scotland, lines 1-5.
Brody Jenner
American television personality, disc jockey and model 1983-

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I really enjoy being behind the camera. A ton of projects I've done that are my most favorite projects would be where I actually executive produce and I'm behind the camera.
Bruce Campbell
American actor, writer and director 1958-

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I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all.
Abbott Eliot Kittredge
American minister 1834-1912

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I suppose that every parent loves his child; but I know without any supposing, that in a large number of homes the love is hidden behind authority, or its expression is crowded out by daily duties and cares.