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The legislative job of the President is especially important to the people who have no special representatives to plead their cause before Congressand that includes… — Harry S. Truman
The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other… — Mark Twain
It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes on,… — Louis Kronenberger
When you are in deep meditation, you feel a great serenity, a joy that is unknown to you, a watchfulness that is a new guest.… — Rajneesh
For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine… — Carol S. Dweck
The only President who clearly died of overwork was Polk, and that was a long time ago. Hoover, who worked intensely and humorlessly as President,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, the twenty-first century should be one of… — Dalai Lama
I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes. — John Philip Sousa
A woman wouldn't make a bomb that kills you. A woman would make a bomb that makes you feel bad for a while. That's why… — Robin Williams
Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four… — Desiderius Erasmus
Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time. — John Steinbeck
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks… — Ezra Pound
The only result my father got for his money was the certainty that his son had laid faultlessly the foundation of a system of heavy… — Flann O'Brien
I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two… — Arthur Miller
One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the… — John Cage
If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it. — Kate Douglas Wiggin
One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we… — Igor Stravinsky
It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had… — Jean M. Auel
Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself. — Ernst Mach
Before we become too arrogant with the most deadly of the seven deadly sins, the sin of pride, let us remember that the two great… — Richard M. Nixon
Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I… — William Least Heat-Moon
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes… — Douglas Coupland
There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened -… — Norman MacCaig
My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite… — Kenzaburo Oe
But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant upon which the… — Bertrand Russell

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