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		All estimates of savings are illusory and empty promises.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
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		Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.
	
	  Jack Canfield Jack Canfield
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		When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician.
	
	  Maceo Parker Maceo Parker
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		If you stop and think about who was in the 'Lassie' movies, it's difficult to think who was in them, apart from Elizabeth Taylor. You remember the dog, not the people! So if you're going to be in a movie, and it's called 'Gremlins', it's going to be about Gremlins, and what people are going to remember are the Gremlins.
	
	  Zach Galligan Zach Galligan
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		The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled with me. Normally, I'm in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia!
	
	  Vera Wang Vera Wang
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		I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
	
	  Karl Kraus Karl Kraus
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		I remember, as a kid, going into other people's houses. Everything was different. The smells in the kitchen were different; the clothing was different. That bothered me. There's something very mysterious about other families and the way they function.
	
	  Sam Shepard Sam Shepard
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		And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.
	
	  Fran Drescher Fran Drescher
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		I am a very open person, and I'm always nervous of being misconstrued. Sitting in the middle of a restaurant makes me nervous. I feel like I'm being judged. And it's funny that I should feel that way.
	
	  Rachel Hunter Rachel Hunter
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		Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.
	
	  Walt Disney Walt Disney
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		When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.
	
	  Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel
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		Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
	
	  Christopher Fry Christopher Fry
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		For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and especially novels, but I'm a writer... I write poetry and essays and criticism and I'd love to write a whole play, and sometimes I even write scripts.
	
	  Jess Walter Jess Walter
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		Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion - and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.
	
	  Soren Kierkegaard Soren Kierkegaard
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		In fact, the American Mastodon vanished around thirteen thousand years ago. Its demise was part of a wave of disappearances that has come to be known as the megafauna extinction. This wave coincided with the spread of modern humans and, increasingly, is understood to have been a result of it. In this sense, the crisis Cuvier discerned just beyond the edge of recorded history was us.
	
	  Elizabeth Kolbert Elizabeth Kolbert
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		All estimates of savings are illusory and empty promises.
	
	  J. M. Roberts J. M. Roberts