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A lot of what is called 'public service' consists of making hoops for other people to jump through. It is a great career for those… — Thomas Sowell
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony… — Soren Kierkegaard
Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating and abundant drunkenness;… — Agnes Repplier
In the vast majority of movies, everything is done for the audience. We are cued to laugh or cry, be frightened or relieved; Hitchcock called… — Roger Ebert
The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled - it's just the opposite! — Walter Winchell
My dearest dearest dear Albert sat on a footstool by my side and his excessive love and affection gave me feelings of heavenly love and… — Queen Victoria
We believed - and I personally still believe - that the so called Voice of God narration, ubiquitous in documentaries destined for PBS, is insulting… — Unknown Author
If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York — O. Henry
I watch too much cable, I admit. Day after day it gets frustrating. Yesterday I watched as someone called legislation to prevent teacher layoffs a… — Robert Gibbs
Barack is one of the smartest people you will ever encounter who will deign to enter this messy thing called politics. — Michelle Obama
Our ideal society finds it essential to put a rent on land as a way of maximizing the total consumption available to the society. ...Pure… — Paul Samuelson
Whenever we have seen a crevice in the crust of convention, we have called attention to it, because we have hoped for a force underneath,… — Franz Marc
Only the scenario writers are exempt. These are tied between the tails of two spirited Caucasian ponies, which are then driven off in opposite directions.… — S. J. Perelman
I don't mind being called a liberal. I just don't really think it's true. — Howard Dean
I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can't play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it's called. — Howard Dean
Even matter called inorganic, believed to be dead, responds to irritants and gives unmistakable evidence of a living principle within. Everything that exists, organic or… — Nikola Tesla
Perhaps the Lord has called me and preserved me for this service not because I am particularly fit for it, or so that I can… — Pope Paul VI
My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998. — John Legend
When you have a challenge and the response is equal to the challenge, that's called 'success'. But once you have a new challenge, the old,… — Stephen Covey
It's this simple: You are a brand. You are in charge of your brand. There is no single path to success. And there is no… — Tom Peters
Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be… — James MacGregor Burns
When jazz is played in another nation, it is called American. When it is played in another country, it sounds false. Jazz is the result… — George Gershwin
The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of chance, occupation, or… — Heber J. Grant
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be… — Confucius

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