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The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there is really no such thing as age-appropriate… — Rachel Johnson
There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. This makes it a sport you can share with… — Kelly Slater
There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are. — T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
When I had my daughter, Louisanna, two and a half years ago, I started recording every funny or sweet thing she said or did on… — Leelee Sobieski
A guy comes down to earth, takes your sins, dies, and comes back three days later. You believe in him and go to heaven forever.… — Jon Stewart
My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
You're freaked out that you're going to be having a child, and once you're looking after your daughter, it's the most beautiful thing in the… — Ben Stiller
America, you know, they always separate people because of race. They've been able to convince, 'The niggers are coming.' You know, the diversity that America… — Russell Simmons
The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are… — Phillips Brooks
The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him… — George Orwell
... I must say this concerning the great controversy over rifles and shotguns. The only thing I've ever said is that in areas where the… — Malcolm X
The 1911 pistol remains the service pistol of choice in the eyes of those who understand the problem. Back when we audited the FBI academy… — Jeff Cooper
I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to explain everything about… — Richard Dawkins
There's no such thing as a good gun. There's no such thing as a bad gun. A gun in the hands of a bad man… — Charlton Heston
When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what do… — Richard Hamming
Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up. — Tacitus
In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a… — Marcus Aurelius
Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction cannot give up the thought… — Zhuangzi
Science...has become identified with a philosophy known as materialism or scientific naturalism. This philosophy insists that nature is all there is, or at least the… — Phillip E. Johnson

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