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• And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.

  Dave Eggers

  Goal, Trying, Attention

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• A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Democracy, Paradise, Tombs

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Art, Passion, Joy

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• Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Devil, Rewards

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.

  Susan Sarandon

  Roles, Easy, Stills

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• I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.

  David Naughton

  Italian, Rome, Film

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• In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.

  Robert Orben

  Humor, Fighting, Two

  Robert Orben (2011). “2100 Laughs for All Occasions: Short, Sharp, Topical, and Funny--Arranged in Categories for Reading, Telling, Laughing”, p.7, Main Street Books

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• On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.

  Lionel Blue

  Girl, Way, Return

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• When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Humor, Artist

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• Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

  Walt Disney

  Disney Animation, People, Age

  "COSI exhibit explores world of cartoons". The Review, August 2, 2007.

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• Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Blessed, Grateful, Heart

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Media, Political

  "The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("The Poet & The City"), (p. 83), 1962.

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• You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.

  Mike Piazza

  Sports, Baseball, Depressing

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• I have a lot of offers to play for appearance fees. It's nice gravy, but it's not a big motivating factor for me, to go here and there just for money.

  Mike Weir

  Sports, Nice, Play

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• None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

  Marian Anderson

  Character, African American, Black

  Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, p.42, University of Illinois Press

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• A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.

  Terry Brooks

  Opportunity, Magic, World

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• The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers.

  Tim Bishop

  Islands, Years, Long

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• If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Accepting, Mint, Breaths

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• I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Sports, Football, Names

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• The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.

  William S. Burroughs

  Cat, Doe, Care

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.504, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers any more.

  Max von Sydow

  Retirement, Want

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• The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Hurt, Secret Love, Needs

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• The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

  Tadao Ando

  Moving, Creativity, Technology

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• Now, I have big-money offers on three movies, and I have director approval. That's kind of scary,' he says. 'No directors have been attached. That's a lot of pressure on me

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Appreciate, Scary, Pressure

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• The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community - by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Interesting, Community, Advertising

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