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If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.

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• I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Running
  • Day
  • First

• Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • Today
  • Understanding

• Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Small
  • Theatre
  • Camera

• Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • More
  • Now
  • Would

• I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Strong
  • Feelings
  • Weird

• Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Action
  • Luck
  • Election

• I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Think
  • Way
  • Wrong

• There are many ways to be hungry. One can hunger for love, or fame or social justice, but hunger for food seems to curb all other cravings.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Love
  • Food
  • Justice

• In general, exchange reactions for the lighter isotopes have equilibrium constants sufficiently different from unity, so that the ratios of concentrations of the isotopes in two compounds which are in equilibrium differ by a few per cents in nearly all cases.

  

  Harold Urey
  • Different
  • Two
  • Unity

• The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Father
  • Body
  • Force

• The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake might change your life. That everything I am, and do, could be ended by the repeal of laws our mothers fought so hard for, that women had waited for the entire span of humanity to come about.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Life
  • Women
  • Change

• Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Trust
  • Cards
  • Cut

• Being a teen can be tough. Just try to surround yourself with really good friends that really have your back, and also be a really good friend to those who really care about you. If you're not sure about certain things, talk to your friends that you trust and your family.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• When I tell people that I lost my baby weight through breastfeeding, they think I'm exaggerating. But it was brilliant for that. It is great for bonding with your baby. It is hard when no one else can feed her, but it was worth it for me. I loved it.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Great
  • Lost

• 'Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people' affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.'

  

  Banksy
  • People
  • Art
  • Success

• When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Sun
  • Moon

• Any change in routine was terrifying, even if it involved less violence rather than more.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Violence

• I didn't love him, but I liked him being in love with me.

  

  P. D. James

• A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Man
  • Garment
  • Scrape

• I love the theater because it's alive. It's a beginning, a middle and an end, and it begins a life.

  

  Jason Robards
  • Life
  • Beginning

• The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Life
  • Art
  • Enjoy

• When I left Apple, it had $2 billion of cash. It was the most profitable computer company in the world - not just personal computers - and Apple was the number one selling computer.

  

  John Sculley
  • World

• They firmly believe it to be the sole function of art to minister to their personal comfort — as upholstery does.

  

  Arthur Morrison
  • Art
  • Comfort
  • Minister

• If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.

  

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