George Washington Quotes
I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
George Washington
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
Garry Shandling
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
Taylour Paige
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The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.
Viet D. Dinh
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
Tea Obreht
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
Teddy Sears
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
Caitlin Flanagan
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Remember this son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can’t sing. Words have to find a man’s mind before they can touch his heart. And, some men’s minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly, no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.
Patrick Rothfuss
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Nay, if there's room for poets in the worldA little overgrown, (I think there is)Their sole work is to represent the age,Their age, not Charlemagne's, - this live, throbbing age,That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires,And spends more passion, more heroic heat,Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms,Than Roland with his knights, at Roncesvalles.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.
Nicholas Sparks
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Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
Stephen Covey
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Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
George Washington