It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. ~Richard M. Nixon
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There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle; people trying to connect with each other. ~Spike Jonze
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Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment. ~Ann Macbeth
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I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games. ~Lincoln Chafee
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
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I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them. ~Helen Mirren
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What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life. ~Tom Petty
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. ~Anthony Trollope
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We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, "What is real?" Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power, that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. ~Philip K. Dick
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race. ~Kirk Hammett
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. ~Sylvia Earle
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When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. ~Tom Robbins
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Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at all times. Many times in history there has been complete disagreement between the two branches of the Government, and in these disagreements sometimes the Congress has won and sometimes the President has won. But during the administration of the present President we have had neither agreement nor a clear-cut battle. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven. ~Michio Kaku
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My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations. ~Sue Kelly
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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. ~Christopher Eccleston
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships. ~Tom Robbins
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ~Leland Stanford
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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