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• All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Laughter, Humor

  Fred Allen (2009). “Treadmill to Oblivion”, p.240, Wildside Press LLC

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• I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.

  Alexa Vega

  Family, Sister, Mom

  "AGENT ORANGE: Sleepover Star Alexa Vega Talks About Her New Movie!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 9, 2004.

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• We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a chance to play in a beer joint, and that's how it started.

  Charlie Daniels

  Beer, Play, House

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• There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.

  Kin Hubbard

  Boys, Literature, Young

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• My background with Cummings was rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, but Tuesday liked to walk in and do the scene. I must say that she was really wonderful. Aggravating, but wonderful.

  Dwayne Hickman

  Tuesday, Wonderful, Scene

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• That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about.

  Winona Ryder

  People, Doe, Want

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• I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like Jack Benny.

  Joan Collins

  Looks, Cases, Feels

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• Americans in all places and levels of government have begun to consider the areas where we need to prepare ourselves from future threats, including the latest weapon: bio-terror.

  Paul Gillmor

  Government, Needs, Levels

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• We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Book, Degradation, Moral

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• In my plea for freedom to all consciences in matters merely of worship, I have impartially pleaded for freedom of the consciences of the Papists themselves, the greatest enemies and persecutors in Europe of the saints and truths of Jesus; yet I have pleaded for no more than is their due and right. Whatever else shall be the consequence of this plea, it shall stand for a monument and testimony against them and be an aggravation of their former, present, and future cruelties against Christ Jesus the Head, and all that uprightly love Him, His true disciples and followers.

  Roger Williams

  Jesus, Europe, Enemy

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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• If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Color, Numbers, Would Be

  "Prime Time: The Life of Edward R. Murrow". Book by Alexander Kendrick, 1969.

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• It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.

  Jim Ramstad

  Numbers, People, Addiction

  United States of America Congressional Record Proceedings and Debates of the 106th Congress First Session Vol 145- Part 10, p. 14054, June 1999.

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• To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

  Wendell Phillips

  Men, Law, Fidgeting

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.305

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• The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

  George Orwell

  Humility, Fools Day, April

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• I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.

  Simone Weil

  Christian, Civilization, Ideas

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• Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Challenges, Congress, Court

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• In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.

  Daniel Boone

  Kentucky, Rivers, Numbers

  John Filson, Daniel Boone (1793). “The discovery, settlement and present state of Kentucky, and an introduction to the topography and natural history of that ... country. Also colonel Daniel Boon's narrative of the wars of Kentucky”, p.35

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• But don’t ever let yourself forget that the person you care about fills an emptiness no one else ever has and that while life with them can seriously suck at times, those moments when it doesn’t are worth all the aggravation of falling into the toilet and getting soaked when you’re half asleep.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fall, Half, Toilets

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• The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

  Margaret Sanger

  Desire, Body, Earth

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• We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love, Life, Together

  "Of The Heart". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• I'd have to just say that working with other people, it's a different world from school.

  Tom Felton

  School, People, Different

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• Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Men, Needs

  "Paul Ryan's faith in Ayn Rand is a political problem for Romney" by Giles Fraser, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2012.

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• People would say, Can we develop a sitcom around you? and I would say, Not interested. I'm very happy doing standup and writing and taking my kids to school.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Writing, School, Kids

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• Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Frustration, Men, Degradation

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• But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.

  Pete Seeger

  People, Decline, Written

  "When Pete Seeger Faced Down the House Un-American Activities Committee" by Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. January 28, 2014.

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