 Organizating is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's not all mixed up. Author: A. A. Milne
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| Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up. Author: A. A. Milne
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| The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. Author: A. A. Milne
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| I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples. Author: A. B. Yehoshua
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| So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on. Author: A. B. Yehoshua
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| When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory. Author: A. C. Benson
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| Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. Author: A. E. Housman
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| Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. Author: A. E. Housman
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| I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old. Author: A. E. van Vogt
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| It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again. Author: A. E. van Vogt
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| Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914. Author: A. J. P. Taylor
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| A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess. Author: A. Philip Randolph
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| Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone. Author: Aaliyah
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| There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself. Author: Aaliyah
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| When all else fails, complicate matters. Author: Aaron Allston
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| Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it. Author: Aaron Carter
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| When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called "Dead End." The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff. Author: Aaron Carter
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| Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| When it gets down to it you just have to act. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story. Author: Aaron McGruder
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| I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award. Author: Aaron Neville
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| When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen. Author: Aaron Neville
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| When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time. Author: Aaron Neville
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| But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world. Author: Aaron Spelling
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| But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act. Author: Aaron Spelling
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| When we did Dynasty, it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire! Author: Aaron Spelling
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| When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives. Author: Abbe Pierre
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| I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas. Author: Abbey Lincoln
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| When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out. Author: Abbie Hoffman
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| When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose. Author: Abdallah II
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| Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing. Author: Abdul Qadeer Khan
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| I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution. Author: Abdullah Ibrahim
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| I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things. Author: Abel Ferrara
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| I do not recollect when I had such a mental treat. Author: Abigail Fillmore
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| It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad. Author: Abigail Van Buren
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| Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper! Author: Abigail Van Buren
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| What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter. Author: Abraham Cahan
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| When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
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| When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith. Author: Abraham Kuyper
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| Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail. Author: Abraham Maslow
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| I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again. Author: Abraham Pais
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| A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead. Author: Abraham Polonsky
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| Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit. Author: Abu Bakar Bashir
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| The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this. Author: Abu Bakar Bashir
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| The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number. Author: Abu Bakar Bashir
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| What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us? Author: Abu Bakar Bashir
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| Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves? Author: Abu Bakar Bashir
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| When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation. Author: Abu Bakr
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| When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God. Author: Abu Bakr
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| When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek. Author: Abu Bakr
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| I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth. Author: Ace Frehley
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| I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke. Author: Ace Frehley
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| I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record. Author: Ace Frehley
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| We're bigger now than we were in the late 70s when we were peaking. Author: Ace Frehley
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| When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off. Author: Ace Frehley
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| Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there. Author: Ace Frehley
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| Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that. Author: Ad Reinhardt
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| Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station. Author: Ada Louise Huxtable
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| Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world. Author: Ada Louise Huxtable
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| It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent. Author: Adam Arkin
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| Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold. Author: Adam Clayton
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| When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons. Author: Adam Clymer
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| When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you. Author: Adam Duritz
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| I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks. Author: Adam Faith
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| Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men. Author: Adam Ferguson
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| I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong. Author: Adam Jones
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| When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it. Author: Adam Jones
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| I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11. Author: Adam Michnik
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| You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away. Author: Adam Pascal
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| Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good. Author: Adam Rich
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| So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff. Author: Adam Rich
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| I realised that the only time I really enjoyed music was when I was in the studio writing. So even though it was a six album deal, they saw quite early on that I wasn't enjoying it as I should be. I didn't feel there was anything behind it. Author: Adam Rickitt
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| Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it. Author: Adam Sandler
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| I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that. Author: Adam Sandler
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| I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing "Maria" from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up. Author: Adam Sandler
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