Fifty-five years ago, when my dad was a penniless teenager, thank God some well-meaning bureaucrat didn't put his arm around him and… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage. — Ellen Terry Copy Share Image
Therefore, a grotesque account of a period some thousands of years ago is taken seriously though it be built by piling special… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
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People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator ... years ago, I was cured of a badly infected finger with… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don't want… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“There was another pause as Quentin stared at him, and then he said quietly, "It didn't happen up there. What happened twenty… — Kay Hooper Copy Share Image
A billion homo sapiens are added every 11 years to the planet. The hypertrophy of a single species pushes other life-forms out… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical… — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
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I'm still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby's first millionaire five years ago. — David Campese Copy Share Image
Only rarely do we see beyond the needs of humanity, and he linked this blindness to our Christian and humanist infrastructure. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“From the end of the World War twenty-one years ago, this country, like many others, went through a phase of having large… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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Los Angeles is an uncanny place to live. It has many science fiction qualities. For example, when I'm standing in line at… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
“His voice was of a lower pitch and somewhat gravely, very much like the lead singer in a band that called themselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human diseases are the same as they were a thousand years ago, but doctors have given them more expensive names. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn't get… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
“I wrote about the person I love most, my older brother, Noah. We don't live together so I wrote what I imagine… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
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It's hard to visualize the toys you had fifty years ago - all save bear. He's as clear as if he were… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
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