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LUONG VAN TU She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation. WILL ROGERS If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means t... DEAN RUSK You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide. WILL ROGERS One third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two thirds provide WILL ROGERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... 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And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... 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. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... 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 The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems. NORMAN R. AUGUSTINE Two thirds of the genes in humans are found in fruit flies. DUOJIA PAN For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is on... 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GILLIAN FLYNN The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit ... VOLTAIRE He is the youngest murderer in Michigan. Prosecutors are watching this case. The public is watching ... DEBORAH CARLEY Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is ... BERNIE SANDERS We already know that a large chunk of users watching the Super Bowl are interested in watching the a... ETHAN FASSETT Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: theyre only animals. THEODOR ADORNO I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG Two thirds of faith is courage. Two thirds of hope is patience. Two thirds of virtue is love. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO It's a scenario where everyone is nervous and pessimism creeps in. On the positive side we are looki... ANDRE CAMINADA Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditor... NORMAN RALPH AUGUSTINE Everyone who could have got away did. Its really upsetting to see. The only people left are the ones... IAN WILLIAMSON There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have ... MICHAEL PITT You really won't know where your home is until you meet your own kind and realize you're both playin... SHANNON L. ALDER There are types of people who want to have leverage over other people's lives. For no other reason t... C. JOYBELL C. So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our ... ELLEN GUSTAFSON They always are good for a run, and they brought that run at us in the third quarter. I think that w... CRAIG DRURY Currently, Asia is the only game in town. ... A success in China clearly translates to the U.S. ... ... DANIEL LIPMAN I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY Watching a baseball game on television is like chasing the great white whale in a goldfish bowl. It ... WARD JUST Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you. F. JOHNSON Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER I toured the area this morning with (House Speaker) Dennis Hastert, ... Corn is about what you'd exp... 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