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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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
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Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels. ~Kiefer Sutherland
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic Proverb
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
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My real heroes have always been sports-writers. ~Dan Jenkins
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought of freedom, in that hope itself possess. All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength. The scorn of danger, and united hearts. The surest presage of the good they seek. ~William Cowper
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When I walk down the runway, my main goal is to not think about the people watching. The idea of all eyes on me would make me too uncomfortable. As I step on the runway, I take a deep breath, focus on a point in the distance, and go! ~Gisele Bundchen
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York. ~Michael Arad
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I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means. ~Adam Sandler
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I am horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad. ~Sam Trammell
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I have accepted fear as a part of life; specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ~Erica Jong
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These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to. ~Jackson Browne
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Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you. ~Bryce Harper
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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface ~Christian Slater
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Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching. ~Steve Waugh
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