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  • Bobby Orr There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bill Gates There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki There are periods when you feel really good. You feel the ball is bigger. The court is larger. You feel like you can't miss. And then there are periods when you feel, 'OK, I'm not feeling great.' But I still need to try to find a way to win.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Brad Carson There are philosophical issues involved in that about choosing the right discount rate, the value, the future, and things like that which drive it. But its start with the premise that global warming is real and if you're a denier of that fact, then you're not going to find climate change mitigation policies to have particular appeal.
    Brad Carson
    American lawyer and politician (1967 - )
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  • Mignon McLaughlin There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
    Source: The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Bonnie McKee There are some artists that don't like working with other females, which is fine. They have their own thing. I personally love being surrounded by other females.
    Bonnie McKee
     
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  • Douglas Adams There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Margaret Drabble There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote nothing like enough to satisfy their admirers, and Jane Austen is certainly one of these.
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus There are still many places I haven't seen that I'd like to travel to. I've never seen the Pyramids, and I'd love to explore the culture in North India. I think walking in the Andes would also be awesome.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Mark Twain There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Anais Nin There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • E. V. Lucas There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
    E. V. Lucas
     
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  • John Fowles There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
    John Fowles
    English novelist (1926 - 2005)
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  • Buddy Hackett There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell: Some people hate him like poison, and other people just hate him regular.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Camilla Luddington There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.
    Camilla Luddington
    British-American actress (1983 - )
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  • A. J. Liebling There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously. It is the story you must take that way.... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • Leon Trotsky There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Alison Lurie There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.
    Alison Lurie
     
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