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You can assert a fifth amendment privilege and not testify. But if you go in and swear to tell the truth, then… — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
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If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There are people who are excitable by nature and allow themselves to become angry for the most trivial of reasons. Judo can… — Kano Jigoro Copy Share Image
The Gospel of Life is not for believers alone: it is for everyone. The issue of life and its defense and promotion… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life;… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I realized that the reason why my head was so cluttered and why I was so unstable and not taking care of… — Benjamin Booker Copy Share Image
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Throughout my 20s I spent a lot of time just playing and not really working, but fortunately for me I continued to… — Jason Bateman Copy Share Image
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It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
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The simple reason no embryo can develop without at least one X chromosome is that it's the X, not the Y, that… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
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I think the thing that I have learned is that a bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
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It's necessary to address the concerns and beliefs of those who are taken in by the fraud, or who don't recognize the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
But Rhett, you mustn't bring me anything else so expensive. It's awfully kind of you, but I really couldn't accept anything else."… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If mind is common to us, then also the reason, whereby we are reasoning beings, is common.' If this be so, then… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I’d missed him so much, it almost hurt. It started the moment I left the Keep and nagged at me all day.… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
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The story of Judith. But one of the reasons I'm doing it is because the roles I've been writing for myself over… — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
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Stupefaction overrode all other emotion when I saw this creature on the lookout, lying in wait for the game. For it was… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
