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  • Barbra Streisand A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Ogden Nash A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Philip Roth A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Max Eastman A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
    Max Eastman
    American writer on literature, philosophy and society (1883 - 1969)
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  • Lee Siegel A jokes and a truth are not mutually exclusive. The best jokes are true and the best truths are jokes.
    Source: Laughing Matters Act one: Satire
    Lee Siegel
    American academic (1945 - )
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  • Bill Kurtis A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • B. W. Powe A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.
    Source: Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Emanations, Destinies, p.54
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Bill Hybels A key ingredient in authentic Christianity is time. Not leftover time, not throwaway time, but quality time. Time for contemplation, meditation and reflection. Unhurried, uninterrupted time.
    Source: Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • William John Bennett A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
    William John Bennett
    American politician, and political theorist (1943 - )
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  • George Meredith A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Linus Price Hayes A kiss: To a young girl, faith; to a married woman, hope; and to an old maid, charity.
    Linus Price Hayes
    American editor of VPI Skipper (1906 - 1962)
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  • Agnes Repplier A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Susan Sontag A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of ''spirit'' over matter.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Arthur Hertzberg A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Antonin Scalia A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
    Antonin Scalia
    American jurist (1936 - 2016)
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  • Lord Henry P. Brougham A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.
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  • Samuel Butler A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Ralph Lauren A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
    Ralph Lauren
    American designer and entrepreneur (1939 - )
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  • Lao-Tzu A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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