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I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me,… — Wayne Gretzky Copy Share Image
Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer… — Anne Holm Copy Share Image
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For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky… — Solon Copy Share Image
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The poor, you know, have a way of solving problems...they have a tremendous capacity for suffering. And so when you build a… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
As long as a white man does it, it's alright, a black man is supposed to have no feelings. But when a… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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Let me begin by saying that we have to understand who ISIS is. ISIS is a radical Sunni group. They cannot just… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
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We also have to intensify our air strikes against ISIS and eventually support our Arab and Kurdish partners to be able to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
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I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at… — Pitbull Copy Share Image
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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
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Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather… — George Ellery Hale Copy Share Image
The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement.… — Mary Harris Jones Copy Share Image
The air of fashion, which many young people are so eager to attain, always strikes me like the studied attitudes of some… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections;… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
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