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The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves… — Robert Menzies
At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents split up. It… — Elliot Perlman
The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper... — Ed Begley, Jr.
I'm getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK… — Phil Jones
Mike [Mann], can you delete an e-mails you may have had with Keith [Trenberth] re AR4? Keith will do likewise...Can you also e-mail Gene and… — Phil Jones
...99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was due to human-made… — James Hansen
We're the most violent nation on earth. There's no getting away from that. But you've got to look at it on a broader level. — Spike Lee
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. — Anne Bradstreet
My way was not to be the petite, gorgeous, little cheerleader. My way of getting by was making people laugh. — Kristen Johnston
The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are. — Bruce Barton
Everyday happiness means getting up in the morning, and you can't wait to finish your breakfast. You can't wait to do your exercises. You can't… — George Burns
And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England. — Jill Dando
Every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry. — Mark Cuban
I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up… — Ernest Hemingway
The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you. — Kin Hubbard
The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will… — Eric Hoffer
The Brits are ghastly. I never would accept a Brit. It would be like Laurence Olivier being happy getting a TV Times award. — Steven Morrissey
The hard part is getting to the top of page 1. — Tom Stoppard
My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months, since the end… — Gustave Flaubert
Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time.… — Ernest Hemingway

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