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Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.: Thomas Berger
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The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.: Gloria Naylor
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.: P. D. James, Time to Be in Earnest
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It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation. Yes we can. It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights. Yes we can. It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness. Yes we can.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), New Hampshire Democratic Primary Speech, 01-08-08
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.: Charles Lindbergh (1902 - 1974)
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Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.: Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.: Alvin Toffler
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.: Vida D. Scudder
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The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.: Joseph F. Newton
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I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.: Ann Richards
Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Essays: Of Building, 1623
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
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Conceit is God's gift to little men.: Bruce Barton
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.: B. F. Skinner (1904 - 1990)