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  • Ben Brantley Whether you like it or not, a performance's triumphs and belly flops come to seem excruciatingly intimate, as if you were somehow partly responsible for them.
    Ben Brantley
    American theater critic and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Barack Obama While the evidence tells me that the death penalty does little to deter crime, I believe there are some crimes- mass murder, the rape and murder of a child- so heinous, so beyond the pale, that the community is justified in expressing the full measure of its outrage by meting out the ultimate punishment.
    The Audacity of Hope (2006)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Emile Durkheim While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them.
    Emile Durkheim
    French sociologist (1858 - 1917)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets. What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Bill Engvall Who applies for that job? Who says I want to work in lost luggage? You don't have a good day. That's like having a job emptying port-a-potties. You're just going to catch crap all day long.
    Blue Collar Comedy Tour
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Brigitte Nielsen Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date.
    Brigitte Nielsen
    Danish actress, model and singer (1963 - )
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  • Alexander Pope Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Ann Coulter Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • James Thurber Why do you have to a nonconformist like everybody else?
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Ben Folds Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Ben Folds Why you gotta act like you know, if you don't know?
    It's okay if you don't know everything.
    Lyrics Bastard, Songs for Silverman (2005)
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Aristophanes Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Babur Wine maketh a man act like an ass in a rich pasture.
    Babur
     
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  • Albert Gray Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do.
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  • Denis Waitley Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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