My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. ~Jacques Derrida
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. ~Patti Smith
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What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs. ~Robert Scheer
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom. ~Paulo Freire
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound. ~Latin Proverb
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same. ~Malcolm Forbes
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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I am a believer in discipline; it takes a lot to do well. You need discipline for those little excursions into the chaotic that make life interesting. ~Linda Ronstadt
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For my own style, I love vintage. 60's and 70's are my favorite. I love baby doll dresses and the soft colors. I try to mix a little bit of modern into that; maybe I'll wear it with boots. At my school we wear a uniform, but we have one day a week we can wear whatever we want. ~Elle Fanning
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He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
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A family in harmony will prosper in everything. ~Chinese Proverb
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I take pride in the fact that a lot of little kids dig what I do. ~John Cena
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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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Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after. ~Peter Stuyvesant
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There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly. ~Harry Blamires
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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