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		Nothing I do is thought out or planned or premeditated. It's just that I'm breathing and living! You just have to breathe and live.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
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		No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.
	
	  H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft
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		When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
	
	  Gabrielle Zevin Gabrielle Zevin
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		I got to the big leagues when I was 20. I thought I had it all figured out. Went to spring training that next year and started off well, got sent down, and I pouted pretty much all of 2000. And it wasn't the right way to handle it.
	
	  Vernon Wells Vernon Wells
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		Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
	
	  Waylon Jennings Waylon Jennings
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		The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
	
	  Barry White Barry White
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		Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.
	
	  Sam Kean Sam Kean
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		I'm a registered, vetted gun owner, but that's because I live way out in the country, like way out in the middle of nowhere.
	
	  Naomi Judd Naomi Judd
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		I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.
	
	  Barry Schwartz Barry Schwartz
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		We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
	
	  Haile Selassie Haile Selassie
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		Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
	
	  Mahatma Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi
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		We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.
	
	  Larry J. Sabato Larry J. Sabato
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		Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.
	
	  Madeleine M. Kunin Madeleine M. Kunin
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		People would be amazed by the ordinary life William and I live. I do my own shopping. Sometimes, when I come away from the meat counter in my local supermarket, I worry someone will snap me with their phone. But I am determined to have a relatively normal life, and if I am lucky enough to have children, they can have one, too.
	
	  Prince Harry Prince Harry
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		In a way, I was almost happy to see her. The worst part of me, out in the flesh. Blinking back at me in the dim light, daring me to call her a name other than my own.
	
	  Sarah Dessen Sarah Dessen
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		Long-distance train conversations are unlike the perfunctory exchanges one normally associates with strangers, or the truncated, cut-to-the-chase kind that sometimes take place between seatmates on a plane.
	
	  Alan Huffman Alan Huffman
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		It's not right to believe that the only way you're gonna get a job and the only way you're gonna get a man or be happy is by being so skinny.
	
	  Maria Conchita Alonso Maria Conchita Alonso
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		I love to run. I was challenged to run the New York marathon four months after having my youngest son, and since running isn't a big part of softball, the thought of a marathon was a stretch for me.
	
	  Jennie Finch Jennie Finch
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		Nothing I do is thought out or planned or premeditated. It's just that I'm breathing and living! You just have to breathe and live.
	
	  Banks Banks