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The world belongs primarily to the dead, and we only rent it from them for a little while. They created it, they wrote its literature… — Robert Bly
Frog said, 'I wrote 'Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend. Your best friend, Frog.' 'Oh,' said Toad, 'that makes a… — Arnold Lobel
Shortly after the birth control pill was approved for public distribution, one woman wrote to John Rock, its inventor, "You should be afraid to meet… — Malcolm Gladwell
The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was… — Abraham Lincoln
My future will not copy my fair past, I wrote that once. And, thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco,: "Generally speaking, the first movement is intended to convey… — Meredith Willson
But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States. ... I… — Michele Bachmann
I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I… — June Jordan
I set a personal record on Christmas. I got my shopping done three weeks ahead of time. I had all the presents back at my… — Demetri Martin
Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger. — Victor Borge
But America was built by optimists. Optimists like my friend Amanda, who recently started a small business. When she went to buy her website address-her… — Eva Longoria
I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful. — Betty Smith
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were… — George MacDonald
It's all a big hoax, honey. I never wrote a song in my life. I get one-third of the credit for recording it. It makes… — Elvis Presley
I don't sugarcoat it you'd die from diabetes if these other niggas wrote it — Kendrick Lamar
When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of… — William J. Clinton
I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough… — Dilys Laing
When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt, that the waters would rise… — Alexander McQueen
We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things… — R. Buckminster Fuller
I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out of the union.… — George Wald

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