I am writing to apply for the position of bookkeeper. Attached, you will find my list of qualifications. I have been keeping… — Joey Comeau Copy Share Image
America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes… — Kent Conrad Copy Share Image
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We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together,… — John Oates Copy Share Image
The writer is a definite human phenomenon. He is almost a type - as pugilists are a type. He may be a… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
I've said for years to wives and mothers, you must start to see yourself as Sarah Connor. You must equip your children… — Beck Copy Share Image
If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
There was one theory put forth by a journalist recently. I have a lot of friends that have died prematurely and a… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
This country belongs to all of us. We made this country from nothing, from mud-flats... Over 100 years ago, this was a… — Mr. Lee Copy Share Image
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I'm sure there have been a lot of boys I've chased over the years that has been fueled by alcohol and stupidity.… — Noel Wells Copy Share Image
In the last couple of years, fashion's gotten a lot safer. People are really pulling back. — Steven Cojocaru Copy Share Image
I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
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The fact of the matter is that, for years, the restaurant and service industry has been, to a great extent, built on… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
There's nobody I don't like. Maybe in six years it will be different. — Courtney Thorne Smith Copy Share Image
Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
While there may be no "right" way to value a forest or a river, there is a wrong way, which is to… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is… — Branch Rickey Copy Share Image
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If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You… — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention. — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years. — Neil Young Copy Share Image
But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal. — Cecile Richards Copy Share Image
And, like poor Phaedra, we fall in love not with who we want to fall in love with, but with one who… — François Lelord Copy Share Image
I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
The span of a man is three score and 10, or thereabouts. As most Americans are not especially keen on availing themselves… — Theodore Beale Copy Share Image
Dane Cook is one of the most exciting comedy stars to emerge on the scene in many years, and his ability to… — Chris Albrecht Copy Share Image
Negative people are worse than negative occurrences. The argument is over in ten minutes - the person may hang around for years. — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image
The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
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My reason for fixing them in office for a term of years, rather than for life, was that they might have an… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
