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  • John Updike Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Brandon DiCamillo Ralph could you please sit down and behave yourself or we are going to have to throw you out. As a matter of fact Ralph can you leave right now?....Ok sit down.
    From Brans Icelandic Gameshow
    Brandon DiCamillo
    American actor, stunt performer, filmmaker and musician (1976 - )
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  • Thomas Arnold Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.
    Thomas Arnold
    English educator and historian (1795 - 1842)
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  • Oscar Wilde Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ludwig Feuerbach Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.
    Ludwig Feuerbach
    German philosopher (1804 - 1872)
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  • Ayn Rand Remember also that the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
    Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Edwin H. Stuart Remember, every time you open your mouth to talk, your mind walks out and parades up and down the words.
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  • Bokeem Woodbine Right around 2004 when 'Ray' came out, I made a conscious decision to be more discerning because I thought to myself, 'After something like this, I really have to try to be strong enough to turn stuff down.'
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Rise like lions after slumber in invanquishable number - Shake your chains to earth like dew which in sleep had fallen on you - ye are many - they are few.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair.
    Well the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere.
    We've got one last chance to make it real, to trade in these wings on some wheels.
    Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks.
    Born To Run (1975) Thunder Road
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Lord George Byron Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Camilla Luddington Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
    Camilla Luddington
    British-American actress (1983 - )
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  • Ben Nicholson Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Paul Klee Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Winston Churchill Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Blake Anderson See, I'm a Pisces, so I get down with love songs. I'm totally into slow jams and old-school R&B, all that.
    Blake Anderson
    American actor, comedian and producer (1984 - )
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  • Florence King Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Shirley Chisholm Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
    Shirley Chisholm
    American politician, educator, and author (1924 - 2005)
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  • Muhammad Ali Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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