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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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive. ~Robert Kiyosaki
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I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says. ~Dick Cheney
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I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest. ~Alain Robert
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I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September. ~Jon Scieszka
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He who cannot howl will not find his pack. ~Charles Simic
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You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself. ~Truman Capote
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed, can let their veins run cold. ~Wilfred Owen
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Let's do some comedy. I always like to add some comedy to my show. Those who've seen me before might know that. ~Bill Hicks
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I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. ~Britney Spears
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements, people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts, are fatal. ~Ward McAllister
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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ~Jorge Luis Borges
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The First Amendment only says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." It can disrespect all it wants. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful. ~Walter Huston
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If you can compete, you are going to compete. ~Earl Lloyd
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
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There will be many times in your lives; at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up; when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome the distraction. But if you use it as an excuse for not doing what you suppose to do, you can blame no one but yourself. If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed. ~Julie Andrews
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. ~Caleb Cushing
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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Health care is not about insurance! Health care is about getting treatment. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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