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9060 quotes by 5143 authors
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Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left over after intelligence…
— Branch Rickey
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All these people keep waxing sentimental about how fabulously well I am doing as a mother, how competent I am, but I feel inside like…
— Anne Lamott
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If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the…
— Martin Van Buren
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Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.
— Tris Speaker
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It takes a strong man to accept somebody else's children and step up to the plate another man left on the table.
— Ray Johnson
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I did a record with a producer, and the good producers eat up the budget, so I didn't have any budget left to produce this…
— Sean Lennon
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If you destroy the people of a company, you do not have much left.
— W. Edwards Deming
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In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since
— Anita Hill
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The little boy had wandered away from his mother, tacking across the grass toward the play structure. His mother watched him go, proud, tickled, unaware…
— Michael Chabon
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I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the…
— Billy Collins
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For if every true love affair can feel like a journey to a foreign country, where you can’t quite speak the language, and you don’t…
— Pico Iyer
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José Antonio Primo de Rivera stated, “Fascism was born to inspire a faith not of the Right (which at bottom aspires to conserve everything, even…
— Unknown Author
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Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people…
— Steve Case
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When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past,
— Fernando Flores
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Posterity does not pay off anything of the national debt. Each administration adds to the debt left to it, and the promise of liquidation implied…
— Frank Chodorov
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Nothing so mystical. Human beings hunger for killing, that is all. It only takes a few politicians to stoke division, or a few demagogues encouraging…
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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Nothing can be more demoralizing than a clinging and abject dependence upon another human being. This often amounts to the demand for a degree of…
— Bill W.
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We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.
— John Avlon
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Brandon Wegher left camp to deal with some personal things. We hope he can return in the very near future
— Kirk Ferentz
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People? People have been obsolete for years, They've made the world a place where there's no room left for their own kind.
— Michael Ende
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