Dave Barry Quotes
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.
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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
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I don't come to Toronto often, so when I'm there it's always special and rare which I think makes it very exciting for my fans.
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On the left hand path we take the direct route, which is much more strenuous, much more dangerous, and much more likely to cause you to fall.
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There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology, society, economy, and institutions.
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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
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