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Not everyone can be an orphan.

Andre Gide

Words: orphan

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I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

Stephen Rea

Words: afraid, death, scared, already, know, exist, dying, really, terrifies

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You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

Harry Browne

Words: need, explanation, recognize, things, miracles, events, ready, explanations, later, knowledge, may, explain, quite, easily

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It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made.

Frank B. Kellogg

Words: true, all, accomplished, earnest, advocates, desire, start, made

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We're not nearly as violent as the westerns.

Moe Howard

Words: nearly, violent, westerns

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I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.

John Berryman

Words: want, Yeats, wanted

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There is a movement in club football, which I don't necessarily consider a prime example of solidarity, because it leads us to conclude the rich are getting richer and they are using everything in the market to create an exodus from Africa.

Sepp Blatter

Words: movement, club, football, necessarily, consider, prime, example, solidarity, leads, conclude, rich, getting, richer, using, market, create, exodus, Africa

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It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real.

Tomas Transtromer

Words: early, here, before, crossroads, irrevocable, choices, thank, life, still, miss, alternatives, sketches, all, want, become, real

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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

Edmund Spenser

Words: poets, scrolls, will, outlive, monuments, stone, genius, survives, all, else, claimed, death

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When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.

Les Paul

Words: first, guitar, fingers, sixth, string, took, off, big, played, just, five, strings

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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Words: genius, just, tremendous, bundle, experience

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Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

Stephen Leacock

Words: electricity, two, kinds, positive, negative, difference, presume, one, comes, little, more, expensive, durable, other, cheaper, thing, moths, get

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Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news.

Martina Hingis

Words: honestly, more, computer, Internet, checking, scores, news

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Okay, the experience itself was a pleasant experience.

Betty Hill

Words: okay, experience, pleasant

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I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.

Ron Silver

Words: use, word, relationship, know, means

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You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement.

Neale Donald Walsch

Words: find, individuals, agreeing, get, collective, societies, larger, groups, difficult, achieve, group, agreement

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The best interpreter of the law is custom.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Words: best, interpreter, law, custom

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No nude scenes. No sex-symbol parts. I want people to recognize me for my work, not just for being pretty.

Robin Wright Penn

Words: nude, scenes, parts, want, people, recognize, work, just, being, pretty

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Success to me was getting out of that contract in one piece.

Brenda Holloway

Words: success, getting, contract, one, piece

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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Karl Kraus

Words: closer, look, one, takes, word, greater, distance, looks, back

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