A. A. Milne Quotes
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
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God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
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Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
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I'm not a sun person.
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I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'
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I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
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I thank all of those deputies who supported the government and gave it a vote of confidence. I believe each of those votes represents a responsible decision to avoid placing our country's membership of the eurozone in danger.
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In this day and age, there's just so much that can hyperstimulate us, and curiously, it is not satisfying us.
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Against the backdrop of people who avoid work, cut corners, and do half-hearted jobs, a diligent man stands out. Practicing diligence is an excellent way to stand out for Christ at home, in the workplace, and even at church. Today, complete each one of your tasks, however big or small, with diligence.
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Wouldn't it have been weird to go to high school with the Pope? You know, somebody did, someone's sitting at home, watching TV in Poland, they see the Pope, they think, "That guy was a jerk! He was so mean to me and now he's Pope? I got a swirly from the Pope!"
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
