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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.


V. S. Naipaul

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HARVEY V. FINEBERG In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team ...
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MARK V. HURD I love being new places and hate getting there, and have been known to say on multiple occasions tha...
V. E. SCHWAB Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
KING GEORGE V The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And...
JOHN V. CHENEY I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.
EUGENE V. DEBS Nature is the best Time-keeper.
ANKALA V SUBBARAO {Debbs' letter to EUGENE V. DEBS We don't take orders from you, Sergeant." Quain said. "Your man tried to assassinate-"
"He isn'...
MARIA V. SNYDER Perhaps I am broken, he conceded silently, but broken bones heal stronger, and I will have...
PETER V. BRETT Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly wit...
EDWARD V. LONG I'm old, I'm used to crummy service, I'm trained to get crummy service. To me, the fact ...
MARK V. HURD When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.
H. V. PROCHNOW We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.
H. V. ADOLT When you hire people who are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
HAROLD V MELCHERT Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps ...
HAROLD V MELCHERT You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
KING GEORGE V The caterpillar becomes a pupa to meditate and then becomes a butterfly
ANKALA V SUBBARAO With what presumption have we dared to voice "Thank You for home (although we hold the deed), Our ...
ELAINE V. EMANS Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 Let the Gospels speak. Of what I have learnt fr...
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