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  • Wayne Calloway Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.
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  • W. C. Fields Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Orson Welles Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • William Shakespeare Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Billy Collins Now that I'm older, a real source of interest is the ages of the dead, the number; the day is off to an optimistic start when the departed are all older than I.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • John Gay O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Butch Trucks Of all the songs we played, 'Statesboro Blues' was the most ripped-off.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Of all the works of man I like best
    Those which have been used.
    The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges
    The knives and forks whose wooden handles
    Have been worn away by many hands: such forms
    Seemed to me the noblest.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Of all the works of man [Von allen Werken] (c. 193
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Barack Obama Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Barack Obama Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Jane Harrison Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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  • André Gide Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Casey Stoner Once I decided to retire from bikes, there was no thought to go racing again. I wanted to have a full year off and maybe even see the world a bit.
    Casey Stoner
    Australian professional motorcycle racer (1985 - )
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  • Richard P. Feynman Once I get on a puzzle, I can't get off.
    Richard P. Feynman
    American theoretical physicist and Nobel price winner (1918 - 1988)
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  • Atom Egoyan Once we were in the studio, we realized we were getting certain effects through the shooting of the dramatic scenes on video, shooting off a screen and then getting wave patterns and stuff like that.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • W. H. Auden One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Carolyn Heilbrun One hires lawyers as one hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.
    The Question of Max Ch. 5 (1976)
    Carolyn Heilbrun
    American academic and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Victor Hugo One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Jean Cocteau One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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