It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation. ~Robert Dold
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I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life. ~Jessye Norman
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. ~Phyllis Diller
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East. ~Bernie Sanders
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. ~Jane Fonda
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble. ~Annie Proulx
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene. ~Nicolas Cage
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A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~American Proverb
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After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ~Shirley Jones
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better no doctor at all than three. ~Polish Proverb
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