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The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.: Martina Navratilova (1956 - )
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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.: Herbert Agar
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Women and men have to fight together to change society - and both will benefit... Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage.: Muriel Fox
For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
In Mexico we have a word for sushi: Bait.: Jose Simon
Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.: Audrey Giorgi
We made a solemn vow not to take any job outside of show business. We borrowed money from parents and friends, rather than take that lethal job waiting tables. This forced us to take any job offered to us. Anything. We once did a show in the middle of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia as part of a fashion show on a hot July night while all around our stage, a race-riot was fully underway. That's how serious we were about our vow.: Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.: Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), The People, Yes (1936)
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Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
'Taint't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.: Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 - 1909), The Country of the Pointed Firs, 1896
Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.: George Meany
While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em.: Yogi Berra (1925 - ), as quoted by Joe Garagiola on the Jack Paar show, NBC 1963
Energy is eternal delight.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of his assassination, November 22, 1963
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If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don`t appreciate the moment until it's passed.: Kanye West
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.: David Letterman (1947 - )