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There is a fun, flippant side to me, of course. But I would much rather be known as the Ice Queen. — Siouxsie Sioux
I would rather have a country run like hell by Filipinos than a country run like heaven by the Americans, because however a bad Filipino… — Manuel L. Quezon
For us, the idea was not to get involved more than necessary in the fight against the Russians, which was the business of the Americans,… — Osama bin Laden
So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Rather, the policy of the White House that demands the opening… — Osama bin Laden
I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work — Bill Sienkiewicz
Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the… — Johannes Kepler
Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no… — Alan Lightman
People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust, delicate, muscular. This… — Anna Quindlen
People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream… — Charles R. Swindoll
It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is… — Ernest A. Fitzgerald
Today the primary threat to the liberties of the American people comes not from communism, foreign tyrants or dictators. It comes from the tendency on… — George Allen
Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies. — Gerald Brenan
Climate helps to shape the character of peoples, certainly no people more than the English. The uncertainty of their climate has helped to make the… — H E Bates
People just don't know how to handle it if a woman uses smarts and brains rather than tits. — Tracy Bonham
Take most people, they are crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, they are always talking about have many… — J D Salinger
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry… — Samuel Johnson
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless… — John W. Gardner
At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held, the material wealth… — Howard W. Hunter
Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words. Did you know that, on average, each of us speaks about twenty-five thousand words… — C. J. Mahaney

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