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The road to hell is paved with adverbs.: Stephen King (1947 - )
There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair. The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there. There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years — block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Election Night Speech in Chicago, 11-04-08
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things [but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.: James Carroll
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What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?: Doctor Who
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Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
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Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.: Charlotte Whitton, Canada Month, June 1963
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Taxation No Tyranny
Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.: Jimmy Breslin
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When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?: Betty White, Mark Twain Prize, 2010
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.: Roald Dahl (1916 - 1990), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.: Natalie Goldberg
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.: John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946), The End of Laissez-faire (1926) Ch. 1
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.: Margot Asquith
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We are most alive when we're in love.: John Updike (1932 - )