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Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.: Kathleen Casey Theisen
Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.: Kate Winslet, Oscar Acceptance Speech, 02-22-09
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
I bet the human brain is a kludge.: Marvin Minsky
Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?: Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
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Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.: Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky
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The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.: Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.: Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005)
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The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.': Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Just as I had to go through a transition period, I guess [my friends and family] did, too.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Not going home is already like death.: E. Catherine Tobler, Vanishing Act
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A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.: Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.: Anonymous
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.: Fulton J. Sheen
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.: G. H. Hardy (1877 - 1947)
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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