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LINDA LERNER We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future...
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LILLIAN HELLMAN We make it tougher than we needed to. We got away from things we wanted to do.
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LOYOLA HEARN We have to make the right decisions for everyone, not just a few.
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SAAD SALMAN It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.
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JOEL SPOLSKY I don?t think any of us know if the decisions we make today will hold up.
DAVE GILMOUR If we don’t make our own future, it will be made for us.
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JAMIE DIXON Just say the word and I'll make him stay.
I have to do it.
There's no have to. Not even no...
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KEN BACON We wanted to make the shots tougher for Grant. She's not Ms. Ohio for nothing.
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DANA ROHRABACHER Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?
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DIRK LANGE I think this (setback) will make us a tougher team.
ETHAN DSCHAAK Unstable natural gas prices and supply volatility hurt all Americans, including Virginia families, f...
GEORGE ALLEN I don?t think any of us know if the decisions we make today will
hold up.
DAVE GILMOUR If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sur...
SUSAN RICE I look to you, the children of our future. Please, do not make the same mistakes; that we have made.
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GIFFORD PINCHOT This will have the tendency to authorize police to make decisions based on ethnicity.
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ROB PORTMAN It sends a message to our future promoter prospects that we will not settle for anything less than t...
JOE CHRNELICH We make our decisions, and then our decisions turn around and make us.
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WILLIAM BRODSKY Please do make your decisions in life and feel confident that they are right.
However, if fate ...
C. ELIZABETH People in West Virginia do have cars. We have indoor plumbing. We even use knives and forks.
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VIRGINIA ALISON When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.
VIRGINIA WOOLF We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to fol...
VIRGINIA WOOLF If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about e...
VIRGINIA WOOLF A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than whe...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with...
VIRGINIA WOOLF To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doin...
VIRGINIA WOOLF No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
VIRGINIA WOOLF As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
VIRGINIA WOOLF When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLF If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It exp...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Books are the mirrors of the soul.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, re...
VIRGINIA WOOLF