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  • George Bernard Shaw When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Helen Rowland When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they ''don't understand'' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Billie Jean King When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Richard A. Nelson When you are through improving yourself, you are out of the game. You learn until your last breath.
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  • Ernest Hemingway When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Callie Khouri When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • Carl Sagan When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Mark Twain Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) Ch. 22
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Carl Safina Why would even I say we can't stop drilling in the Gulf? Because we have no alternatives. Whether or not we drill in the Gulf, or in Alaska, we will continue to wring the last out of anyplace else.
    Carl Safina
    American ecologist and author (1955 - )
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  • Remy de Gourmont Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Maureen Dowd Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Billy Gardell Yeah, I've done Jim Breuer's radio show a couple times, and I heard from Larry the Cable Guy when I got 'Mike & Molly,' wishing me congratulations. I'm always the last one to the party, man. But that's okay. I got there.
    Billy Gardell
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1969 - )
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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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  • Kahlil Gibran Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Zig Ziglar Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Charles E. Popplestone You can really have everything you want, if you go after it, but you will have to want it. The desire for success must be so strong within you that it is the very breath of your life - your first though when you awaken in the morning, your last thought when you go to bed at night...
    Charles E. Popplestone
    American author
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