Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person. ~Louise Slaughter
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On reflection, Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, this wasn't one of your better plans. ~Chris Wooding
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Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom. ~Bernadette Devlin
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You are playing worse and worse every day and right now you are playing like it's next month. ~Herb Brooks
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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I only discovered the "Harry Potter" series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day and night. It was the morning after one such readathon when I was to appear for a chemistry exam. Spending my night with the third edition of "Harry Potter" didn't help much, and I fared poorly. ~Sonam Kapoor
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary. ~Karl Lagerfeld
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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There is no burnt rice to a hungry person. ~Philippine Proverb
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Will is stronger than fact; it can mold and overcome fact. ~H. G. Wells
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible. ~Norman Cousins
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For me, I've always wanted to do theater, so I gravitate toward it. ~Justin Bartha
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Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. ~Erich Fromm
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught. ~Eric Ries
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ~Irish Proverb
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In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally. ~Vince Lombardi
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Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go. ~Zach Johnson
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The most important thing about you is what comes to your mind when you think of God. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
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If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow. ~Henry Adams
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People say, "Don't you get tired of people coming up to you all the time?" But what's wrong with strangers saying they love you? ~John C. Reilly
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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