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America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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proverbiosA bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing. ~Gene Tunney
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No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle. ~Jodi Picoult
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle; people trying to connect with each other. ~Spike Jonze
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma. ~Greg Boyle
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. ~Christopher Eccleston
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In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. ~Gary Ross
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down. ~Young Buck
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The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty. ~Ned Rorem
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The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not. ~Leos Carax
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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart; I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade. ~Tony Parsons
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They were close to the end of the beginning... ~Stephen King
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Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life. ~Kenneth Scott Latourette
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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It was like two different photographers, and shot in three different locations and it was really fun to do. There were 12 beautiful girls in it. It was great. ~Gisele Bundchen
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight. ~Bobby Rahal
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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