Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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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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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness; and there is a big difference. ~Ty Cobb
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained. ~Aaron Burr
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To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor. ~Paul A. Baran
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I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny. ~Gilbert Gottfried
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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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One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success; such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. ~Nikola Tesla
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Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well. ~Bob Brown
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it is better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down. ~Young Buck
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The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein. ~Jerry Brown
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?" ~Brian Tracy
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I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East. ~Bernie Sanders
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains. ~Hobart Brown
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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