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Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.

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• But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Want
  • Die
  • Patriotism

• I know what I want, I want things for myself, but I think the key to life is somebody to love, something to do and something to look forward to. I don't think it's complicated.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Life
  • Love
  • Myself

• I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Want
  • Me
  • Painting

• Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Good
  • Women
  • Power

• Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Speech

• Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Time
  • Different
  • Writing

• Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Heart
  • Sometimes
  • Charity

• It certainly will be if you are still around.

  

  Oscar Levant

• When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably just a little eleven o'clockish.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Feeling
  • Morning
  • Worry

• Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. And the reason I am able to do these kind of movies is I have a tax shelter fund in Germany, and if you invest in a movie in Germany you get basically fifty percent back from the government.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Movie

• I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • People
  • Believe
  • Mean

• Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Feeling
  • Faith
  • Poverty

• U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • America
  • Growing
  • China

• A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework within which we organize our ideas about processes.

  

  Hal Abelson
  • Powerful

• Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Good
  • Work
  • True

• Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Forever

• If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.

  

  Zanele Muholi
  • Mean
  • Waiting
  • Existence

• I'm not saying that McDonald's gift certificates caused the obesity epidemic, but in retrospect, the timing is kind of suspicious.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Kind
  • Timing
  • Obesity

• There is no learned man but will confess be hath much profited by reading controversies,--his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the truth which he holds firmly established. If then it be profitable for him to read, why should it not at least be tolerable and free for his adversary to write? In logic they teach that contraries laid together, more evidently appear; it follows then, that all controversy being permitted, falsehood will appear more false, and truth the more true; which must needs conduce much to the general confirmation of an implicit truth.

  

  John Milton
  • Reading
  • Controversies
  • Profited

• I think it's a privilege to be able to fly to somewhere where people want to see my show.

  

  Bill Burr
  • People
  • Want
  • Shows

• Ask yourself whose voice are you listening to? What you see in me is the result of prayer and hard work and obedience to the voice of God.

  

  Folorunsho Alakija
  • God
  • Listening
  • Prayer

• I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

  

  Angus Wilson
  • Men
  • Should
  • Common

• Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.

  

  Susanne Langer
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