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Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.

B. W. Powe

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• You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.

  

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• Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.

  

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• I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.

  

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• I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.

  

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• Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.

  

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• I'm an explorer.

  

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• A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• God primes the pump of obligation.

  

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• Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

  

  Major Taylor
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• It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good.

  

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• In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

  

  Ira Glass
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• Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ‘em. You’re not gonna change any of them by talkin’ right, they’ve got to want to learn themselves, and when they don’t want to learn there’s nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.

  

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• I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child...

  

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• Take this Hercules - this hero! Hero, indeed! What was he but a large muscular creature of low intelligence and criminal tendencies!

  

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• It is, in other words, time for a national oil change. That is apparent to anyone who has looked at our national dipstick.

  

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• Barack Obama is a radical communist and I think it is becoming clear. That is what I told people in Illinois and now everybody realizes it is coming true. He is going to destroy this country and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist.

  

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• I think it's very important that we don't sound like militants. Often what we do is we give a comment, and because it comes across with passion, then we're 'angry black people.'

  

  Lee Daniels
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• She lifted her head. "It's easier," she said, slowly, "to be angry on someone else's behalf than on my own. And yet I find I have a well of anger in me, that I have been filling for years from my own hurts. If I spill it out in defense of another, I can deny it's mine.

  

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• Thus the period we are studying is remarkable for achieving, not merely the right of free alienation of land, but also the right of alienation by secret conveyance. The latter achievement we may sometimes regret; but it was, probably, necessary for the complete emancipation of land from its its ancient tribal and feudal bonds.

  

  Edward Jenks
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• Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

  

  William McKinley
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• Who ever he is, I agree with your mother," said Dad as he entered the kitchen. "Stay away from him. Stay away from them all until you're of marrying age. Once you reach a nice, mature fifty-four, gentlemen callers will be welcomed here.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
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• Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.

  

  B. W. Powe