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- American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated…
- Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened…
- Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons.
- Professional marriage counselors agree that the most productive and mature way to deal with marital anger is to stomp dramatically from the room. You want…
- Why can't Americans do their own taxes? Because the federal Tax Code is out of control, that's why. It's gigantic and insanely complex, and it…
- Baby's room should be close enough to your room so that you can hear baby cry, unless you want to get some sleep, in which…
- Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
- ...light overcomes darkenss. A tiny match can illuminate the darkest room. As long as there is some light somewhere in the universe, [darkness] can be…
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- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world,… — Chinua Achebe
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- I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many… — Teresa of Avila
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- Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? — Nicholson Baker
- These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago...… — Ansel Adams
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- I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned. — Michael Bay