Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service. ~Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, the positive pronounce without dismay. ~William Cowper
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white. ~Valerie Simpson
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It is very hard to concentrate when your stomach is rumbling. ~Shania Twain
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I'm at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep they will have someone to talk to. ~Rodney Dangerfield
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Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish. ~Theodor Reik
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It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~Woody Allen
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. ~Charles Lamb
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people. ~Barney Frank
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The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness. ~Yotam Ottolenghi
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I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous. ~Mel Brooks
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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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There have been a couple of jobs I have done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink. ~Clancy Brown
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If you want success, be unique. ~Natalie Massenet
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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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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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"Feminist comedy," practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children. ~Grace Slick
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At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. ~Robyn Davidson
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The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, "Overwhelming feeling of dread." That was going to go over nicely. ~Anne Ursu
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I hate to lose, and I do whatever I can to win, and if it is ugly, it is ugly. ~Pete Sampras
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