Everything I say is true. ~Laura Schlessinger
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I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation. ~Nate Silver
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I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them. ~Helen Mirren
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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals. ~Alphonsus Rodriguez
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Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country. ~Richard Lugar
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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I have been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the no-fly zone. ~Philippe Perrin
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There have been a couple of jobs I have done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink. ~Clancy Brown
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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I represent Orlando, Florida, the world's number one vacation destination. ~Ric Keller
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My real heroes have always been sports-writers. ~Dan Jenkins
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The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ~Elisha Gray
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