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It's a story that fails as history, but that's why it succeeds as scripture -- because it's elliptical, ... The story has the ability to be perpetually now.


Bruce Feiler

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KAT MORGAN Never say i m bored because its not your life thats boring its all you that make it boring!
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ABDUL HAKIMI Newsweek is changing its story because of pressure from the U.S. government.
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CHUCK MISSLER It endangers the mother-state, poisons its democracy, corrupts its enlightenment and thwarts its abi...
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ALICE DREGER That's SHIT!

How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
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BRUCE JENNER Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity pre...
BRUCE MARTON To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good...
BRUCE CATTON In his first years in the White House, Mr. Roosevelt apologized for each annual deficit. Each new bu...
BRUCE BARTON Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!
BRUCE LEE Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.
BRUCE HENDERSON To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month,...
BRUCE JENNER If you want to take your mission in life to the next level, if you're stuck and you don't know how t...
BRUCE JENNER Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established sty...
BRUCE LEE If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your wo...
BRUCE LEE If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then th...
BRUCE JENNER I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to min...
BRUCE LEE Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the funct...
BRUCE LEE Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
BRUCE LEE Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
BRUCE JENNER I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you...
BRUCE JENNER You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.
BRUCE LEE I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like 'Wh...
LENNY BRUCE The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Lik...
BRUCE LEE Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to sa...
LENNY BRUCE Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to thin...
BRUCE BARTON When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful o...
BRUCE BARTON If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your t...
BRUCE JENNER If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
BRUCE BARTON The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are -- it's Look at me, Ma! It's acceptance...
LENNY BRUCE The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere ...
BRUCE BABBIT