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• I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read.

  Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

  Hands, Opera, Knees

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• They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.

  Muhammad Ali

  Holocaust, Cartoon, Germany

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• The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.

  Jo Coudert

  Path, Habit

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.29, iUniverse

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• Unfortunately, money is more often misused and abused than used intelligently. Most people haven't figured out how to use money wisely to truly enhance their lives. Most, it seems, act rationally with their money only when they can't dream up any more irrational ways to spend it. To be sure, financial insanity has developed its own big following including you and me.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Dream, People

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• Leadership is not about personality, possessions, or charisma, but all about who you are as a person. I used to believe that leadership was about style but now I know that leadership is about substance, namely character.

  James Hunter

  Believe, Character, Personality

  James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.166, Crown Business

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• It's the same in the office, the lab, the factory. Employees and coworkers are more productive, more loyal - satisfied and happy - when they are treated fairly, decently, and with dignity than when they are used and taken for granted, when they feel like no more than a tiny cog in a giant corporate wheel.

  Wayne D. Dosick

  Taken, Office, Giants

  Wayne D. Dosick (2000). “The Business Bible: 10 New Commandments for Bringing Spirituality & Ethical Values Into the Workplace”, p.48, Jewish Lights Publishing

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• The dark aftermath of the frontier, of the vast promise of possibility this country first offered, is an inflated sense of American entitlement today. We want what we want, and we want it now. Easy credit. Fast food. A straight shot down the interstate from point A to point B. The endless highway is crowded with the kinds of cars large enough to take a mountain pass in high snow. Instead they are used to take children from soccer practice to Pizza Hut. In the process they burn fuel like there's no tomorrow. Tomorrow's coming.

  Anna Quindlen

  Soccer, Country, Children

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• We see the most beautiful creations whither. The beautiful young maiden becomes the old woman and she hates her body because it isn't what it used to be. The young man becomes the old dotard who has trouble remembering.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Hate, Men

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• Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.

  Diogenes

  Law, Speech, Cobwebs

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• The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Desire, Ends

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Steven M. Cahn (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939”, p.321, SIU Press

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• I have always used the burqa because men are using the burqa in the name of culture and religion to take freedom from women. Women are alive, they have their own wishes and desires, but all the time they have to sacrifice that. They are a kind of skeleton, which doesn't have muscles. They're just breathing, like a kind of puppet that barely exists. If women spoke for their rights, they were beaten by their husbands. So they don't have a voice. They lose their voices and their wishes and their happiness.

  Malina Suliman

  Husband, Sacrifice, Men

  "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.

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• I always used to sit next to Mel Blanc when we'd do the shows. When you have Jack Benny on one side and Mel Blanc on the other, you're not going to go far wrong.

  Harry Shearer

  Next, Sides, Shows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Public spending on infrastructure has fallen to its lowest level since 1947. And the U.S., which used to have the finest infrastructure in the world, is now ranked 16th according to the World Economic Forum, behind Iceland, Spain, Portugal and the United Arab Emirates.

  Ray LaHood

  Iceland, Spain, World

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I grew up going to musicals with my mom here in New York, going to Broadway. I used to be in musicals in high school.

  Sharon Van Etten

  Mom, New York, School

  "Without Her Happy Hookers". Interview with Sharon Van Etten, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2015.

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• What you have to get used to as a writer is realizing that most of what you come up with is wrong for the show.

  Michael Loceff

  Realizing, Come Up, Shows

  "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

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• As long as I can stay creative and used my mind, it can be 20 hours a day. I sleep four hours, so I've got 20 hours.

  Ester Dean

  Sleep, Long, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't smoke as many joints as I used to.

  Willie Nelson

  Joints, Smoke

  Source: www.gq.com

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• If we could switch off the aging gene we would. There's no technology that we've had that we haven't used. We are in the capital of staying young forever.

  Andrew Niccol

  Technology, Forever, Aging

  Source: collider.com

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• I've done so many interviews that I've gotten past the ego and the personality. I used to feel that there might be something missing, but a few years ago I realized that I was so causative over how the interview went that I was no longer concerned over the effects of the interview.

  John Travolta

  Past, Years, Missing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A nationwide Harris Poll showed that the public favoured the use of Laetrile by a 30% margin. ...In over 250 cases of cancer with which I have been associated, all of whom used (Laetrile, vitamin) B-17, not a single one had side effects as a result.

  Leon Chaitow

  Cancer, Dark, Age

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• A Zen master used to say, It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, he could have cooked his rice much sooner.

  Rajneesh

  Fire, Dunces, Masters

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• At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.

  Winston Churchill

  White, Black, Sides

  Winston Churchill (1965). “A Man of Destiny: Winston S. Churchill”

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• MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Knights, Feet, Soldier

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.145, 谷月社

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• The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense has no following and is tartly reminded that 'it isn't in the dictionary' - although down to the time of the first lexicographer no author ever had used a word that was in the dictionary.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Innovation, Lexicographer, Use

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.149, University of Georgia Press

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• Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Speech, Scandal, Beats

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