No-one can function properly without occasional peace and quiet. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
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I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch. — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
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I'll do my core, I'll do my strength training, I'll do my occasional cross training if I need it. — Mary Cain Copy Share Image
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There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan… — Chris Bonington Copy Share Image
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Courage is required not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
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Hey listen -- I've proved a lot of things. That's how I pay my rent. Theories and little observations. A puckish remark… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
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The stars look the same from night to night. Nebulae and galaxies are dully immutable, maintaining the same overall appearance for thousands… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
But I've grown thoughtful now. And you have lost Your early-morning freshness of surprise At being so utterly mine: you've learned to… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. The reasons for such addiction are so… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
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You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Drone strikes, Albert Camus would argue, are not just meant to kill. They are programmed to terrorize. In this regard, whether the… — Jeffrey St. Clair Copy Share Image
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The experience of oppressed people is that the living of one’s life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers which are… — Marilyn Frye Copy Share Image
When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip. — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
I take politics only medicinally, as a cure of occasional attacks of insomnia. — Kenneth Hare Copy Share Image
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