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I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people.… — Linda Kaplan Thaler Copy Share Image
I went back into the older stories and reworked them, because I became a better writer over the years and could spot… — Tom Barbash Copy Share Image
We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
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A man is likewise form and expression, a written sign thrown unto boundless matter, an undifferentiated word of what is. I've therefore… — Mohammed Dib Copy Share Image
Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
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A coquette is one that is never to be persuaded out of the passion she has to please, nor out of a… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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The scriptures provide one of the best ways to find our course and stay on it. Scriptural knowledge also provides precious protection.… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
No one was more important to the game of baseball in the last half of the 20th century than Henry Aaron and… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
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The game business arose from computer programs that were written by and for young men in the late 1960s and early 1970s.… — Brenda Laurel Copy Share Image
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I realize how much I rely on the actors to really know the lines because I tend to forget what they are… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
Scores do not reveal the most important facts about a wine. The written commentary (tasting notes) that accompanies the ratings is a… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
I was carrying a beautiful alcoholic conflagration around with me. The thing fed on its own heat and flamed the fiercer. There… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Written in support of abolishing the Corn Laws, it became Elliott's most famous poem. The Peoples Anthem When wilt thou save the… — Ebenezer Elliott Copy Share Image
Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
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A hastily written "Civil Rights Act" was rushed through Congress. President Andrew Johnson immediately vetoed it, noting that the right to confer… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
By 2010 computers will disappear. They'll be so small, they'll be embedded in our clothing, in our environment. Images will be written… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
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