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  • Oscar Wilde Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Helen Rowland Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification!
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Barbara Mikulski Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Brett Ratner Woody Allen is in his '70s and he's making movies, so I look forward to getting there.
    Brett Ratner
    American director and producer (1969 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • George Sand Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Albert Camus Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Bridgit Mendler Working on 'Good Luck Charlie' has been an awesome experience, and it's so crazy to build a fan base and have all those people tune into the show.
    Bridgit Mendler
    American actress, singer, and songwriter (1992 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor - it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Francis Bacon Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Write on your doors the saying wise and old. ''Be bold!'' and everywhere - ''Be bold; Be not too bold!'' Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Don Marquis Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Robert Frost Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Iris Murdoch Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Bootsy Collins Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat and we have to learn how to deal with each other. I think that the music and what we do in our actions is what can kind of bring us together, hopefully.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Yes! To this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bob Graham Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Billie Holiday Yes, the strong gets more
    While the weak ones fade
    Empty pockets don't ever make the grade
    Mama may have, Papa may have
    But God bless the child that's got his own
    That's got his own.
    God Bless The Child
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Bill Engvall Yesterday, my son was out in the yard playing with his friend, and he hit his friend. I walked up to him, and I said, Hey... (pantomimes hitting his son) We don't hit. He looked at me like, Here's your sign, Dad.
    Heres Your Sign
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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