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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778), (Attributed); originated in "The Friends of Voltaire", 1906, by S. G. Tallentyre (Evelyn Beatrice Hall)
Dreams alone aren't enough to make your belly full.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.: Ramsay Clark
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I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic.": Richard Pryor (1940 - 2005), Guardian Unlimited (UK) August 9, 2004
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.: Heather Armstrong, Dooce, 07-07-06
Silence is a text easy to misread.: A. A. Attanasio, 'The Eagle and the Sword'
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I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.: John Wayne (1907 - 1979)
The future will be better tomorrow.: Dan Quayle (1947 - )
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A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.: James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881)
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Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.: Brenda Ueland
For several years more I maintained public relations with the Almighty. But privately, I ceased to associate with him.: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Parents and Children (1914) "Children's Happiness"
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
I think there's a god and I know it's not me.: Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), Good Housekeeping, June 2011
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You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.: Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Gran Prix, 1994
In Ethiopia during the famine, I saw stuff there that reorganized how I saw the world. I didn't quite know what to do about it. At a certain point, I felt God is not looking for alms. God is looking for action.: Bono (1960 - ), Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.: Tom Hanks (1956 - )
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.: E. W. Dijkstra
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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
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