Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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I have the courage of my convictions. ~Brigitte Bardot
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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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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity. ~Antoine Rivarol
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I love documentaries and the computer. I am a little addicted to the computer, and that relaxes me. I find information, I shop, and I look up people I worked with to find out if they're dead or alive. ~Anne Meara
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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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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For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition. ~Joe Scarborough
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I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able to get a good conception of its magnificence and it tremendous colossal gigantic stupendous size and beauty and splendour! ~David Berg
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You can't, Brooke, you can't leave. You're mine. ~Katy Evans
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I'm living the dream. ~David Petraeus
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In a moment, we hope to see the pole vault over the satellite. ~David Coleman
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Sure it's a big job, but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ~John F. Kennedy
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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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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it. ~Chinese Proverb
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The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
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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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Achilles absent was Achilles still! ~Homer
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I am still me even after all that has happened. ~Victoria Beckham
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There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned. ~Nizar Qabbani
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Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to. ~Martin Luther
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