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I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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Let me ask you a question: If you never ate a balanced diet, what would happen to your body? You know the… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Cooperating in something as visible as space exploration and space flight can only improve relations between the two countries because what happens… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
This has all the appearance of a foreign power trying to undermine structures of legitimacy of an American election. That is a… — Michael Gerson Copy Share Image
But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true… — Anita Hill Copy Share Image
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I've seen the photos of me and Flo Rida. It doesn't matter how we met. We met. I don't want to say… — Brandy Norwood Copy Share Image
Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Did I mention I've finally decided on a nickname for you?" "I didn't know you were looking." Well, I've given the matter… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Serious accidents are frequently blamed on "human error." Yet careful analysis of such situations shows that the design or installation of the… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Influenza is a serious disease. Kids die of influenza, both in Japan and the United States, and if you give a drug… — Robert Nelson Copy Share Image
We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Copy Share Image
Government and other scientists have identified hundreds of chemicals that are linked to diseases in small concentrations and that are unregulated in… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Usually the script is much more funny than the film turns out to be, in my case. The script is almost like… — Dagur Kari Copy Share Image
Mark glanced at his watch and sighed. "Look, I have to go, but I'm serious, Rose. Stay here. Stay out of trouble.… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
In the end, no single group will mean defeat for the Democrat and victory for the Republican in 2016. But President Obama's… — Byron York Copy Share Image
If we are really serious about protecting the environment, the discharge pipes and stacks of industry would all plug directly into their… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
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I feel like I've been lucky that I've never been put in a situation where I had to keep a serious secret.… — Patrick Somerville Copy Share Image
But the question is - are we deporting a couple hundred people for show or are we actually making a serious effort… — Mark Krikorian Copy Share Image
Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was… — Alonzo Mourning Copy Share Image
We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them… — Theodore C. Sorensen Copy Share Image
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As a human, I am flawed in that it is difficult for me to consider others before myself. It feels like I… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
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It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
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Al Gore has made no serious attempt to level the playing field for U.S. agriculture exports, which have fallen 16 percent in… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
I love a novel that’s funny, and The Taxman Cometh is very funny, delightfully well-written, yet with a serious message about how… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
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