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Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.


Shirley Chisholm

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Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
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If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD I've seen cases where girls were drugged and taken to the airport.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS I'm benefitting from the sacrifices and seeds sown by Shirley Chisholm, John Lewis, and so many ...
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TIM WALBERG Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
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JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The meeting of experts took place this morning, and the commission was unable today to show any clea...
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NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
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SHIRLEY CHISHOLM Any opinion coming from the Justice Department has to be viewed with a healthy dose of skepticism. C...
ANTHONY ROMERO Let your true love be your lifetime treasure and beyond.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to devel...
JAMES C. DOBSON It's a fine line between success and failure. You need to be ahead of the curve ... just not too far...
GREG KAVANDER Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
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LINUS TORVALDS In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem a...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY Given the fact that anything that is really new is classified, we won't learn anything in the hearin...
STEPHEN SALTZBURG In reality, commissions rarely solve complicated problems. Therefore, the following question arises:...
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P. J. O'ROURKE It's really a problem of appearances in most cases. In 99 percent of the cases, it's something that ...
CINDI CANARY I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
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LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
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مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT It's nice to have things to look forward to.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The problem, ... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on.
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Stars flicker...
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Death lays his icy hand on kings:
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Must tumble down,
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Are shadows, not substantial things;
There is no armour aga...
JAMES SHIRLEY Cease, warring thoughts, and let his brain
No more discord entertain
But be smooth and calm a...
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SHIRLEY BASSEY You don't get older, you get better.
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SHIRLEY TEMPLE A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
SHIRLEY MACLAINE The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
SHIRLEY MACLAINE Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.
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SHIRLEY HUFSTEDLER I would have liked to come into the grocery some morning and see them all, even the Elberts and the ...
SHIRLEY JACKSON Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.
SHIRLEY JACKSON Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, ...
JAMES SHIRLEY Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways ...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.
JOHN SHIRLEY I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore....
SHIRLEY MACLAINE I've been blessed with three wonderful careers: motion pictures and television, wife, mother and...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.
JOHN SHIRLEY We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points o...
SHIRLEY MACLAINE I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and...
JOHN SHIRLEY My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE You're never too old to grow up.
SHIRLEY CONRAN Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.
SHIRLEY HAZZARD I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.
SHIRLEY CONRAN Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.
SHIRLEY CONRAN Waddya want me to do? through my sling shot at him?
SHIRLEY HUGHES Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close...
JOHN SHIRLEY Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.
SHIRLEY MACLAINE Beauty was darkness till she came.
Then paint her eyes, whose active light
Shall make the fo...
JAMES SHIRLEY The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to bui...
SHIRLEY HUFSTEDLER I am an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best ...
SHIRLEY MACLAINE I think they're a little shocked at first. . . . Then they start laughing or grinning or shaking my ...
SHIRLEY MANSON Sex is not the enemy . . . I won't feel guilty no matter what they're telling me,
SHIRLEY MANSON I state for the record that I am PRO CHOICE. No government, no man, no neighbour of mine is going to...
SHIRLEY MANSON The communication had gotten so bad that I don't think any of us know, even to this day, what was go...
SHIRLEY MANSON I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the ...
SHIRLEY EATON Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chos...
SHIRLEY MANSON If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call...
SHIRLEY MANSON Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.
SHIRLEY KNIGHT I'd like to run away from you, but if you didn't come and find me, I would die...
SHIRLEY BASSEY I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same.
SHIRLEY BASSEY No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.
SHIRLEY BASSEY