A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. ~Robert Orben
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The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. ~Anne O'Hare McCormick
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I have never seen a homeless guy with a bottle of Gatorade. ~George Carlin
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I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest. ~Alain Robert
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What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs. ~Robert Scheer
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying. Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help ~Donald Miller
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
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The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. ~Robert H. Schuller
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I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
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From a director's point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that is fantastic for me. ~Stephen Chow
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It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation. ~Robert Dold
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I am "too fiery," yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. ~Margaret Fuller
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. ~Robert Edison Fulton
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people. ~Robert Frost
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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