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People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years.… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
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“Not so very long ago, however, such self-governing peoples were the majority of humankind. Today, they are seen from the valley kingdoms… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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This may sound strange or stupid... but I don't know who I am anymore, I'm tired of trying, Sick of crying I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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“There is the past, and there is the future,” he had said to his brothers and sisters not long ago. “The present… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“It lay broken in half, and he looked into its trunk as into the mouth of a black tunnel. The trunk was… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
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Look, it's nice. I like the fact that critics liked this movie, but most of the movies that I've made, you'll find… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
I don't think too much about the past when I am actually playing, I prefer to concentrate on the present. The performance… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
I always like to make explicit the fact that before I went off not too long ago to fight in the trenches,… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
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She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
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We have started something called the Corporate Services Corps. Now, it was modeled after the Peace Corps from long ago, the 1960s.… — Ginni Rometty Copy Share Image
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