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We have had two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage, and now we have two headaches for every aspirin.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
Barbra Streisand
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
Victoria Pendleton
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
Ramana Maharshi
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Life is a dead-end street.
H. L. Mencken
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
Walter Dean Myers
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
Tammy Bruce
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
Adam Peaty
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I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.
D. B. Sweeney
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I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology.
Major Owens
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
Tate Donovan
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
Nancy Gibbs
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Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.
Caitlin Flanagan
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I certainly never saw myself as posh.
Laura Carmichael
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When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
M. Night Shyamalan
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It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.
Gary Johnson
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I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.
Natalie Portman
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The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.
Abraham Lincoln
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I'm a huge poster collector.
Illeana Douglas
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In the case of the Analytical Engine, we have undoubtedly to lay out a certain capital of analytical labour in one particular line, but this is in order that the engine may bring us in a much larger return in another line.
Ada Lovelace
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I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.
Allison Janney
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And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.
Aristotle
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We could make our own pots on the weekends and in the evenings, and we used to do that, and these would be fired in the big kiln, along with all the standard ware that we were producing, but this wasn't quite what we had expected when we read The Potters Book.
Warren MacKenzie
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We have had two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage, and now we have two headaches for every aspirin.
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