It is extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now. ~Daniel Yergin
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In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight. ~Bobby Rahal
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I think "Voldemort" is definitely the scariest villain. ~Lauren Oliver
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Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive. ~Kakha Bendukidze
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If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free. ~Russell Means
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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. ~Gene Weingarten
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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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Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed. ~William Faulkner
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team. ~Jon Krakauer
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington; today it is 1 in 4. ~John Ensign
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots. ~Derek Jeter
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The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. ~Ayn Rand
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. ~Tom Robbins
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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