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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
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I entrust this Twenty-second World Day of the Sick to the intercession of Mary. I ask her to help the sick to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
Seances is an internet project where I intended to adapt at least a hundred and maybe three hundred lost films into ten… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
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Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're… — Laura Z. Hobson Copy Share Image
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When I was 21 I think I thought I was 31. I was always kind of doing the right thing, and it… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
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After twenty years and thirty stories, thirteen pieces were finally selected and the collection was born. So far, the blurbs from [authors]… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
When women reach the age of maturity, Mother Nature sometimes overworks their frustration to the point of irrationalism. Like themiddle-aged man...who finds… — Mark Hanna Copy Share Image
I've been thinking about it a great deal, and it seems to me that although any one sixpence is as good as… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
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My mother's father was from Sligo, and he used to say it was the hardest thing in the world to find a… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course. This happens in every job, but because I have worked in comedy… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
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It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
The financial crisis was a classic case of the political class failing the American people. Twenty-five agencies were supposed to be minding… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
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