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If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road. — George W. Bush
I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening. — Martha Stewart
Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt… — Lewis Gannett
Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters. — Horace
The hockey lockout of 1994 - 1995 has been settled. They have stopped bickering... and can now get down to some serious bloodshed! — Conan O'Brien
Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort… — Mary Lou Retton
The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious. — Helen Rowland
Take my verses too serious ya hate me, cause I'm the one to paint a vivid picture, no HD. — Drake
The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself… — Susan Sontag
I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat.… — Maya Angelou
I don't have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, 'You're going to be fine.… — Queen Latifah
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the… — Jack Kerouac
Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious. — Jacques Maritain
My first serious girlfriend, when I was 16, was Mormon. I went to her house for 'family home evening,' and I was like, 'Why aren't… — Trey Parker
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts. — Henry Adams
Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious… — Maria Montessori
The owner of a Florida massage parlor has been arrested by police. "There weren't any serious violations," said the officers, "she just rubbed us the… — George Carlin
The cheese and wine party has the form of friendship without the warmth and devotion. It is a device either for getting rid of social… — Brooks Atkinson
We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the… — Thomas Jefferson
A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being. — Charles Lamb
Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass? — Michel de Montaigne
Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities… — Agnes Repplier
We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse… — Friedrich Nietzsche
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not… — Christian Morgenstern

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