I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America, it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. ~Pat Robertson
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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His rod reversed, and backward mutters of dissevering power. ~John Milton
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better. ~Lucy Walker
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You seek problems because you need their gifts. ~Richard Bach
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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Good morning. Love is the most beautiful truth of life. Never ignore the person who loves you.
#message #cute

But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life. ~Tim Blake Nelson
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I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do. ~Halle Berry
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Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something. ~John C. Maxwell
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"Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts." ~John Green
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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It is so boring to just hire a fancy caterer and have them do everything. ~Nicole Miller
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people. ~Morton Gould
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My dad in particular, I tend to use; I call him "The Brain." If he's accessible, I'd rather put it through his brain. My wife, Melissa, maintains that the closer he is in proximity to me, the less I think for myself. And I think she's actually correct. So anything worth mulling over, I will mull over with my father, and that includes ratings. ~Joshua Malina
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I've just got to do a good job and stay on in Formula One for as long as I can. ~Kimi Raikkonen
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Experience this moment to its fullest. ~Zen Proverb
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Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message. ~James Patterson
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The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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