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  • Bode Miller That feeling is the same whether you're on either side of the hundredths. Obviously, it's great to win the world championship, but if you put down that kind of skiing, it's awesome either way.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Antonio Porchia That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • Arthur Miller That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Samuel Johnson That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.
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    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ernest Hemingway That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best -make it all up -but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Aphra Behn That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
    Aphra Behn
    English playwright, poet and translator (1640 - 1689)
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  • Publilius Syrus That should be considered long which can be decided but once.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Anthony Holden That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Bill Medley That was the toughest thing I ever had to do: tell my son that his mum was gone. I was a bachelor living on the beach, but I had to pull it together very quick for my boy.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • William Shakespeare That what we have, we prize not to the worth
    whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost,
    why, than we rack the value.
    Much ado about nothing (1598)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • L'Enclos, Ninon De That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Berkeley Breathed That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Boris Becker That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Bob Edwards That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Evelyn Waugh That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Lisa Alther That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
    Lisa Alther
    American author and novelist (1944 - )
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