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As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride & Prejudice" speaks wistfully to… — Unknown Author
I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing… — Marisa Tomei
One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet… — Clifford Odets
I can't resist telling you that when the Vienna Economics Institute celebrated its centennial, many years ago, they invited, as their keynote speaker, my father… — Unknown Author
When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered… — James Whitcomb Riley
I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera… — Lesley Garrett
If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The Leavers were chapter… — Daniel Quinn
My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that's important, because if you hang with winners, you… — Pat Summitt
A generation ago, three-quarters of the money used to buy food in the United States was spent to prepare meals at home. Today about half… — Eric Schlosser
Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as milk. — Eric Schlosser
Eighteen months ago I weighed 95kg and had a 40-inch waist. Now the waist is down to 34 inches and I weigh nearly 98kg. — Lee Westwood
One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's… — Georgina Chapman
Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed to escape the… — Todd Tiahrt
A cop told me, a long time ago, that there’s no substitute for knowing what you’re doing. Most of us scribblers do not. The ones… — George V. Higgins
His presidency ended more than a decade ago, but politicians, Democrat and Republican, still talk about Ronald Reagan. Al Gore has an ad noting that… — Unknown Author
You do not need to belong to the cat for a long time to realize the main thing that cats like to do is to… — Cleveland Amory
A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the "universal judgment that there is no… — Don Kates
Ben Franklin was a little stout later in life and it was said that in Paris a young woman, tapping him on his protruding abdomen,… — Benjamin Franklin
DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed . . .… — Ambrose Bierce
Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me… — William Butler Yeats
Your task is to conquer yourselves, not ships, lands and castles. This battle is the one in which you especially are to 'come off conqueror.'… — Neal A. Maxwell
Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public,… — Douglas Adams
The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit. To be sure,… — George Dantzig
There is a scientific explanation of healings by the power of Mind over matter which demonstrates that such healings are not miracles, but are within… — Walter Russell
We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago, no one could… — Warren Buffett

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