The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. ~Ayn Rand
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all. ~Nancy Sinatra
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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have passed. ~Azerbaijani 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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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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We are actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself. ~Linda Gray
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For me, prose walks, poetry dances. ~James Broughton
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All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention; of barbarian invention; is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition; then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. ~Robert Green Ingersoll
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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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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The most important of the Lord's work you will ever do will be the work you do within the walls of your own home. ~Harold B. Lee
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I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says. ~Dick Cheney
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The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive. ~George Santayana
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. ~Britney Spears
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Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop. ~Roshon Fegan
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Good morning. Love is the most beautiful truth of life. Never ignore the person who loves you.
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Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing. ~Gene Tunney
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~Will Durant
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