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Popular quotes of the
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We have had more brilliant Presidents than Cleveland, and one or two who were considerably more profound, but we have never had one, at least since Washington, whose fundamental character was solider and more admirable.
H. L. Mencken -
Don't diddle the dose. Once you have done your homework, go for it.
Terence McKenna -
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
Walter Anderson -
I'm an all or nothing kind of girl. When I give my heart, I give myself totally.
Jiah Khan -
Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.
Jimmy Carter
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Theory without practice is of little value, whereas practice is the proof of theory.Theory is the knowledge, practice the ability.
Alois Podhajsky -
Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.
Joan D. Vinge -
I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
Edmund White -
I drank that sentence and began to glow.
Gary Soto -
I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
Randa Haines -
The one lesson I've learned from technology and food is the only time you know you're doing the wrong thing is when you're doing what everyone else is doing.
Kimbal Musk
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I'm concerned about what happened in South Dakota. The government needs to stay out of people's private lives.
Ed Fallon -
It's always been based around the song, and guitar-playing in the service of the song... The sensibility is about songs. I like to think of it as kind of 'refined primitive.'
Lindsey Buckingham -
If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.
Lou Holtz -
We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
Ramez Naam -
If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.
Confucius -
Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy.
James Michael Aloysius Bradford
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Men wanna be alone, but we don't wanna be by ourselves.
Patrice O'Neal -
Anybody that's from somewhere that's made it in music outside of New York or L.A., if it's a unique enough place, they'll always say, 'Dude's from Minnesota!' Or wherever, you know? So that's how I got the Philly connection.
Kurt Vile -
I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.
Candace Bushnell -
Even from when I was in grade school or church or wherever, I was always like: we're one, and we should respect each other and grow as one. And respect each other's diversity, of course.
Valerie June -
You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.
Barton Gellman -
We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.
Kristin Scott Thomas
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When I was reading books for 'Seesaw Girl,' I came across several references to the fact that in the 11th and 12th centuries, Korean pottery was considered the finest in the world. I liked that - the idea of a little tiny country being the best at something.
Linda Sue Park -
Love humiliates you. Hatred cradles you.
Michelle Pfeiffer