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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. ~Martin Amis
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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proverbiosWe 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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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. ~Benjamin Franklin
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Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful. ~Walter Huston
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion. ~Eric Maisel
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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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The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. ~Ayn Rand
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Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible. ~Norman Cousins
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Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision. ~Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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You have got to have a problem that you want to solve, a wrong that you want to right. ~Steve Jobs
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are. ~Lauryn Hill
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Every knock is a boost. ~Elbert Hubbard
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Life is tough, but it is tougher when you are stupid. ~John Wayne
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is. ~James Gray
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Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive. ~Robert Kiyosaki
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
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I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair. ~Viktor E. Frankl
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In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally. ~Vince Lombardi
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In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy. ~Sebastian Faulks
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Every great story seems to begin with a snake. ~Nicolas Cage
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