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  • Lily Tomlin For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Alice Walker For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Bo Burnham For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Callie Khouri For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • Anne Tyler For me, writing something down was the only road out.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Arthur Schwartz For the most part this is a place to find down-to-earth advice on everyday cooking, eating, food shopping, cooking equipment, and nice things to put on your table.
    Arthur Schwartz
    American composer and film producer (1900 - 1984)
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  • Samuel Butler For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bettie Page For years I had my hair parted down the middle in a ponytail, tucked down around the sides... Well, I went and cut the bangs, and I've been wearing them ever since. They say it's my trademark.
    Bettie Page
    American model (1923 - 2008)
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  • Edgar Cayce For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.
    Edgar Cayce
    American clairvoyant (1877 - 1945)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Norman Cousins Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Rollo May Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
    Rollo May
    American psychologist
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  • Bill Flores From the depths of the Pacific to the deserts of Iraq, more than a million American soldiers, Airmen, midshipmen, and Marines have laid down their lives for their friends, their families and our nation.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Napoleon From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • John Stuart Mill General laws may be laid down respecting the tides; predictions may be founded on those laws, and the result will in the main, though often not with complete accuracy, correspond to the predictions.
    A System of Logic, Book 6, The Logic of the Moral Sciences Ch. 3
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Ronald Reagan General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
    Speech Berlin, 12 June 1997
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Bertolt Brecht General, your tank
    is a powerful vehicle
    it smashes down forests
    and crushes a hundred men.
    but it has one defect:
    it needs a driver.
    Poems, 1913-1956
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Al Gore George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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