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For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable… — Frances Farmer Copy Share Image
Simply from greening our energy system and eliminating fossil fuel pollution, we get so much healthier that the savings in health care… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Diseases happen in acidic environments, so it's very important to keep your body alkaline. Keeping a diet high in leafy greens, spring… — Valentina Zelyaeva Copy Share Image
Men, to exist, to become complete and mature, need to feel the joy of fatherhood. When a man does not have this… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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So at least half the victors have instructed their mentors to request you as an ally. I know it can't be your… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
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I don't think people ought to believe only one news medium. They ought to read and they ought to go to opinion… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
My parents put me in the water very early, and also had me skiing at a very early age. They put me… — Benoit Lecomte Copy Share Image
Jamie Oliver's lunch is soup, half a papaya with lime, ciabatta with mozzarella and prosciutto. The dear boy is not sharing the… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
I went out and started on my way up in television. I wrote music, I wrote books, I played an instrument half-ass.… — Chuck Barris Copy Share Image
You told me once of the plants that lie dormant through the drought, that wait, half-dead, deep in the earth. The plants… — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Singing when no one else is around is always good. I especially like belters. Good, loud singing is probably better medicine than… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
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The right question to ask from a Darwinian prospective is what was it about bipedalism that was so advantageous? Why did it… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
Historically, many of the great names in alpine climbing seemed to have just gone climbing as training. In fact, the model alpinist… — Steve House Copy Share Image
I went out for a film where they wanted seven brothers and one sister, so I was there for half a day… — Archie Panjabi Copy Share Image
I think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
When we are green, still half-created, we believe that our dreams are rights, that the world is disposed to act in our… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
He raised his eyes. "Sister. See. This time I knew you." Asha's heart skipped a beat. "Theon?" His lips skinned back in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Typically, among the audience members joining the actors, the director, Ann Ciccolella and myself, about half of these theater goers have read… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
Government aid programs have been endlessly expanded, and the government has sought to maximize the number of people willing to accept handouts…… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
We are now spending half a trillion dollars on foreign oil, importing 62 percent of the oil we use, and we haven't… — T. Boone Pickens Copy Share Image
“Lynn, she saved half our faction from this stuff," says Marlene, tapping the bandage on her arm from where the Dauntless traitors… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
There has been a great proliferation of lawyers in the pat 20 years, just as there has been a proliferation of computers.… — Edward Burns Copy Share Image
My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
The US stole Texas from Mexico by violence, then invaded Mexico on ludicrous pretexts and conquered half of it, what is now… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Boredom forces you to ring people you haven’t seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Acting was definitely half of what I loved about storytelling and about theater. So, when I get a chance to do a… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
Take, for example, Lithuania. Do you know, what was its population in the Soviet times? It was 3.4 mln people. It was… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
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