I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people. ~Robert Frost
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them. ~Compton Mackenzie
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine. ~Robert M. Parker
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere. ~Ryan White
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The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you. ~Philip Roth
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In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team. ~Jon Krakauer
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Honesty is the best privacy policy. ~Internet Proverb
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Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence. ~Jay Duplass
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I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality. ~Dave Davies
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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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Our directives must be reassessed. ~Kane
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I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day. ~Dennis Miller
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I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. ~Robert H. Schuller
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The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy. ~Missy Franklin
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. ~Britney Spears
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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
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