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  • Laura Swenson For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.
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  • Carmen Electra For some reason I only crave fruit when I'm in a tropical place - if it's really hot in the summer or if I go to a tropical island for work. But otherwise I really don't crave it.
    Carmen Electra
    American actress, model and singer (1972 - )
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  • Bobby Bonilla For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.
    Bobby Bonilla
    American Major League Baseball player (1963 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Arthur Capper For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Anthony Weiner For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Carl Sagan For the first time, we have the power to decide the fate of our planet and ourselves. This is a time of great danger, but our species is young, and curious, and brave. It shows much promise.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 05 min 20 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bipasha Basu For the longest time, Indian women have been okay with being curvy. But I think the modern Indian woman needs to get toned. I don't endorse being thin. Anorexia and bulimia are a reality in India because everybody wants to be thin.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • George Robert Gissing For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
    George Robert Gissing
    English writer (1857 - 1903)
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  • Bergen Evans For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.
    Bergen Evans
    American professor and television host
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Barbara Boxer For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Carlos Alazraqui For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
    Carlos Alazraqui
    American stand-up comedian, actor and singer (1962 - )
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  • Abraham Cowley For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Francis Bacon For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Aeschylus For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Audre Lorde For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 43
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Luther Burbank For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
    Luther Burbank
    American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer (1849 - 1926)
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