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But search the land of living men,Where wilt thou find their like again?

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• So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • War
  • Strong
  • Leadership

• To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Growing
  • Football
  • Games

• It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Better

• We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Him
  • Worth
  • Worth It

• As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Want
  • Voice
  • Tools

• A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Year

• If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Attention
  • Away
  • Acne

• Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Men
  • Women
  • Change

• There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • World
  • Stronger

• Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Hand

• You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • People
  • Good
  • Age

• It's not healthy to be jealous.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Healthy
  • Jealous

• As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Proud
  • Very
  • Africa

• I'm really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the '30s, and the amazing slang of the mid-'60s and '70s.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Really
  • Fascinated

• 'All-Star Wonder Woman' would get worked on in what is laughably referred to as my 'spare time.' I just ended up with less and less time to devote to it. Eventually, we all realized that it was taking forever, so we just all agreed to hold off on it 'til the time was right to do it properly. Well, I still have a contract; DC never tore it up.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Star

• Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Time
  • Country
  • Young

• Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Men
  • Women
  • Remember

• Most of my stuff hasn't gone viral. I have been successful on YouTube and I'm very proud of the stuff that I've done, but compared to the people who are actual internet stars and making a living off of it, my views are nothing.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Done
  • Proud

• The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.

  

  Alla Nazimova
  • Character

• Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Faith
  • Forget
  • Week

• All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

  

  William Penn
  • Men
  • Long
  • Mad

• 'After my election, I have more flexibility', spoken March 26, 2012 to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev while in Korea.

  

  Barack Obama
  • March

• Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Peace
  • Understanding
  • Force

• But search the land of living men,Where wilt thou find their like again?

  

  Walter Scott
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