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Our inner strengths, experiences, and truths cannot be lost, destroyed, or taken away. Every person has an inborn worth and can contribute… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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Liam in Taken has been great to see. My boys love it. They love him. And there's just the gravitas to it.… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher… — Donna Shalala Copy Share Image
A bank needs models to measure risk. The problem, however, is that any one bank can measure its risk, but it also… — Myron Scholes Copy Share Image
My life just got taken over by my cooking. If you don't have any discipline, which I don't, you can make 10… — Duff Goldman Copy Share Image
So, some of the most difficult formal poems that I've written, say one sentence sonnets, I've been able to do those fairly… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
One customer well taken care of could be more valuable than $10,000 worth of advertising. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
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A great number of soundings, mainly along the continental slope of the New England States were also taken by the vessels of… — Alexander Agassiz Copy Share Image
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Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
