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World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
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Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
If one of our players gets his second foul in the first half, then he must come out of the game and… — Chuck Daly Copy Share Image
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Now many such things may be done without intitling the people to rise in arms. A gross, flagrant, and palpable abuse no… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
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I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
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Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Small does of advertising result in nothing, obviously. It's like giving a sick person half the medicine he needs. It just causes… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Pirate Hunters is a fantastic book, an utterly engrossing and satisfying read. It tells the story of the hunt for the rare… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
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I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
They talk about class warfare -- the fact of the matter is there has been class warfare for the last thirty years.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
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Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
Back so soon?" he asked. "Too bad. I was just about to organize a search for your dead body. What happened when… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
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My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
If you look across a host of measures at adoption studies, fraternal v. identical twin studies, twins-raised-apart studies, the history of early… — Steve Sailer Copy Share Image
...when a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows the distinctive high-and-dry feeling of being abandoned… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image