James Thurber Quotes
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
Iris Chang
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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
Warren Mitchell
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
Nadia Comaneci
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Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
Tammy Bruce
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
Maggie Grace
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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
Barack Obama
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I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
Kate Winslet
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
Candice Swanepoel
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I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies.
Walt Mossberg
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
Yogi Berra
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The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.
Victor Grignard
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
Tad Williams
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When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.
Aasif Mandvi
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I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.
Calvin Trillin
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
Mallory Ortberg
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Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
Karrie Webb
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Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.
Flula Borg
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There's a lot of rudeness and sullen behavior and kids that are very entitled and spoiled, just buy me more stuff. I didn't want to raise kids like that.
Amy Chua
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I don't really know how to describe my personal style.
Blake Lively
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It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
Terence McKenna
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If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
H. L. Mencken
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'Malice' wasn't about horror to start with but an underground comic driven by the power of rumour. However, as nothing fuels a rumour like fear, I decided that it had to be a frightening comic.
Chris Wooding
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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
James Thurber