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  • Thomas Wolfe Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Carroll Quigley Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Ariel Sharon Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.
    Ariel Sharon
    Israeli general and politician (1928 - 2014)
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  • Diane Ackerman It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
    Diane Ackerman
    American poet, essayist, savage and naturalist (1948 - )
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  • Bob Costas It brings to mind a story Mickey liked to tell on himself. He pictured himself at the pearly gates, met by St. Peter, who shook his head and said, 'Mick, we checked the record. We know some of what went on. Sorry, we can't let you in, but before you go, God wants to know if you'd sign these six dozen baseballs.
    Eulogy for Mickey Mantle, Dallas, Tex., 15 August 1995
    Bob Costas
    American sportscaster (1952 - )
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  • William Mathews It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.
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  • Ben Schnetzer It certainly isn't like I'm reading scripts thinking I need to do something really different. But you want to stretch yourself and challenge yourself; that's really the major turnon when you're going into work.
    Ben Schnetzer
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Blair Underwood It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it's got to be a great script and a great character.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Carolyn McCarthy It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.
    Carolyn McCarthy
    American nurse and politician (1944 - )
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  • Adam Sandler It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Ben Casnocha It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.
    Ben Casnocha
    American author, entrepreneur, and investor (1988 - )
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  • Edward Gibbon It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Agnetha Faltskog It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!.
    Agnetha Faltskog
    Swedish singer, songwriter and actress (1950 - )
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  • Charles Darwin It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Julie Burchill It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.
    Julie Burchill
    British journalist, writer
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Lord George Byron It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a ''grand peut-''tre'' - but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Harold Macmillan It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • Henry Fielding It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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