 If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. Author: A. A. Milne
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| Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave. 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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| 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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| The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people. Author: A. B. Yehoshua
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| The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs. Author: A. B. Yehoshua
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| We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned? Author: A. B. Yehoshua
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| Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building. Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti
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| Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. Author: A. C. Benson
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| Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write. Author: A. E. Housman
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| The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic. Author: A. E. Housman
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| Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed. Author: A. E. Housman
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| But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer. Author: A. E. van Vogt
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| In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I later met Rogers who did some of my early covers and I was impressed with him. 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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| It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language. Author: A. E. van Vogt
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| Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine. Author: A. E. van Vogt
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| People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. Author: A. J. Liebling
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| Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible. Author: A. J. McLean
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| The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color. Author: A. J. McLean
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| We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life. Author: A. J. Muste
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| In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power. Author: A. J. P. Taylor
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| There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting. Author: A. J. P. Taylor
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| If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey. Author: A. N. Wilson
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| An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose. Author: A. P. Herbert
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| The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. Author: A. P. Herbert
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| The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose. Author: A. P. Herbert
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| Freedom is never given; it is won. Author: A. Philip Randolph
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| Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship. Author: A. Philip Randolph
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| Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Author: A. Philip Randolph
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| Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest. Author: A. Whitney Brown
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| I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget. Author: Aaliyah
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| I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing. Author: Aaliyah
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| I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing. Author: Aaliyah
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| I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character. Author: Aaliyah
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| I have no problem with the security... It's something that must be done for the times in which we live. Safety first. Author: Aaron Brown
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| Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote. Author: Aaron Brown
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| Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action. Author: Aaron Burr
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| I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman. Author: Aaron Carter
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| But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter. Author: Aaron Hill
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| I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes. Author: Aaron Klug
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| In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants. Author: Aaron Klug
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| The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like. Author: Aaron Klug
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| The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results. Author: Aaron Klug
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| And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it. Author: Aaron McGruder
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| Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation. Author: Aaron McGruder
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| I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism. Author: Aaron McGruder
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| But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment. Author: Aaron Neville
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| So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday. Author: Aaron Neville
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| I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection. Author: Aaron Sorkin
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| We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set. Author: Aaron Sorkin
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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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| I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we? Author: Aaron Spelling
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| Nowadays, people always say, how come he's doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl. Author: Aaron Spelling
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| I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus. Author: Aaron Yoo
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| If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions. Author: Abba Eban
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| One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all. Author: Abba Eban
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| You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. Author: Abba Eban
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| People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands. Author: Abbe Pierre
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| The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school. Author: Abbe Pierre
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| I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do. Author: Abbey Lincoln
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| It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter. Author: Abbey Lincoln
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| Never impose your language on people you wish to reach. Author: Abbie Hoffman
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| The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great. Author: Abbie Hoffman
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| The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. Author: Abbie Hoffman
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| You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done. Author: Abbott L. Lowell
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| Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet. Author: Abdelaziz Bouteflika
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| People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs. Author: Abdolkarim Soroush
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| We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality. Author: Abdolkarim Soroush
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| A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy. Author: Abdoulaye Wade
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| The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject. Author: Abdoulaye Wade
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| Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance? Author: Abdul Kalam
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| God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers. Author: Abdul Kalam
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| Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around. Author: Abdul Kalam
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| We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage. Author: Abdul Kalam
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| Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported? Author: Abdul Kalam
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| Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall. Author: Abdul Qadeer Khan
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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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| The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it. Author: Abdurrahman Wahid
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| Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked. Author: Abdus Salam
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| The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off. Author: Abe Lemons
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| I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism. Author: Abebe Bikila
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| Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. Author: Abigail Adams
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| We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. Author: Abigail Adams
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| If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. Author: Abigail Van Buren
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| Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose. Author: Abigail Van Buren
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