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It takes the youth, really; they're the ones that should have the energy, it shouldn't be the old geezers, but the signs… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
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The whole point of why I'm doing this is to show all kids, boys and girls, that women take up half the… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
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Don't make a fuss about a world war. At most, people die... Half the population wiped out - this happened quite a… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I appear only in the first half of 'Vunnadi Okate Zindagi,' and in 'A Aa' I hardly appear in two to three… — Anupama Parameswaran Copy Share Image
I came in at half past eleven. Since then I have been sitting in an easy chair like a fool. I could… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis,"… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi,… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
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Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they… — George Will Copy Share Image
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But one of the coolest things about meteorites is that most were formed four-and-a-half-billion years ago, during the birth of our solar… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
People sometimes say that we will know feminism has done its job when half the CEOs are women. That’s not feminism; to… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
I was raising a child full time, sharing the responsibility with his mom. He lived with me half the time, so I… — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
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It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Kiran says (the shelf) is full of stories. If it is, then I like fairy stories. Fairy stories are fair. In them… — Hilary McKay Copy Share Image
[...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth.… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
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It [prejudice] is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away. — Dorothy Dandridge Copy Share Image
The vision preached by my father a half-century ago was that his four little children would no longer live in a nation… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
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The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a… — Kevin Kline Copy Share Image
Sometimes I spend all day trying to count the leaves on a single tree... Of course I have to give up, but… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction. — C. J. Cherryh Copy Share Image
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