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I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in… — Gilbert Hernandez
Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough...so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody's. — Paul Harvey
Some men of the line regiment who had appeared on our right started running back. I shouted out to them to halt, but they took… — Unknown Author
The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode… — Simone Weil
This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making. — Barack Obama
The truth is women in the workplace don't have to fight nearly as hard for opportunities, or to dispel stereotypes, as they did before. — Suze Orman
I write nearly every day. Some days I write for ten or eleven hours. Other days I might only write for three hours. It really… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve a problem. — Raymond Chandler
I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the… — William Albert Allard
Give half a dozen men the same camera, lenses and plates, and send them to the same place to do the same thing, and all… — Frederick H. Evans
As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following photography for the… — Alfred Stieglitz
There are those who condemn five in midfield as a negative tactic, but when a side's centre-backs are as hapless as Chris Perry and Hermann… — Matthew Engel
A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off. — Kevin Keegan
We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher. — Jerome Bruner
We saw that he plays with his heart too. He obviously loves the game so much and was distraught to lose in the final. Seeing… — Cristiano Ronaldo
It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own… — H. L. Mencken
The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of… — Unknown Author
The conventional heaven with its angels perpetually singing etc nearly drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist for ten years. My… — David Lloyd George
How can we give to the Lord? What shall we give to him? Every kind word to our own, every help given them, is as… — John Andreas Widtsoe
A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know. — James Russell Lowell
The concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide has changed greatly since fossilized life began on Earth nearly 600 million years ago. In fact, there is only… — Greg Benson
Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It is surely a matter of… — Navi Pillay
One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and… — Stephen Hawking
But it will be found... that one universal law prevails in all these phenomena. Where two portions of the same light arrive in the eye… — Thomas Young
During the next four years...unless drastic steps are taken by Congress, the U.S. will have nearly 8,000,000 unemployed and will stand on the brink of… — Henry A. Wallace

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