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Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
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No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. ANDREA HAIRSTON
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DOUG HARVEY
Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life... 
It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way. 
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married wit... 
Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and politic... 
As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most Am... 
I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger. 
There's always someone out there training for your spot. For my scholarship at the University of... 
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Necessity is the author of change 
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The path to wisdom is paved with humility. 
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Happiness grows best in the soil of contentment. 
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One person's craziness is another person's reality. 
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I feel the need to endanger myself every so often. 
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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering. 
I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low. 
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. 
Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones. 
Necessity is the author of change. 
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I believe that treating other people well is a lost art. 
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I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher. 
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