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FRIEDRICH SCHILLER I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.
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MORDECAI RICHLER I figured there was no reason to lie. I told them I just escaped.
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WILLIAM SCRANTON I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.
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LOIS LOWRY This was the toughest. There was a point this year I didn't think we'd finish .500.
GENE NAKAMURA When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote:
I must j...
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JEFF FEUERZEIG The outdoor warning sirens in Douglas County are being sounded at this time. The National Weather Se...
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CASSANDRA CLARE This kind of preventative maintenance has helped Adams Electric have one of its best years yet for r...
RON PLANK Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't del...
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JEANNIE CHAVEZ There was only one manager who wanted to win the game and that was me. Micky Adams came here for a d...
PHIL BROWN I think we are probably at a point now where this plan is not going to get substantially better or w...
DOUG OLLENDIKE Drayson is an impressive player, ... He has a good basis for the game at this stage of his career. T...
BILL PETERS There is always a story behind what you like. Like what you like and be happy with what you like but...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There outside there is a lot of stuff which you learn, the clock illusion, that you live in the past...
DEYTH BANGER In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming...
JOHN SEXTON She ransacked her mind but there was nothing in it
JOYCE CAROL OATES Can I buy you a drink when you get off?"
"I don't drink. Alcohol is bad for my legs."
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DARREL BOWMAN Life's Irony;The truth lovehates the lie because,the lie makes it exist & also makes it to temporari...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To this point, it was our biggest game. But it's just one game.
BRITTIN LARSEN There was nothing truthful about his testimony. And there was nothing to corroborate his story. We t...
SUZAN SZOLLAR There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was s...
IMOGEN HEAP This was more difficult, ... because with Griffith, there was a story line. This was a piece of nonf...
DAN KLORES 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON ... insanity is never reasonable.
E.A. BUCCHIANERI So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. I'm a blogger. It flowed very naturally...
AARTI SEQUEIRA Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents...
NATHAN FILLION Everybody has got an interest in solving this problem through diplomatic means. ... There will be a ...
CHRISTOPHER HILL Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.
ANITA BAKER My grandfather was the first building inspector for Douglas County.
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DOUGLAS ADAMS The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a dou...
DOUGLAS ADAMS O Deep Thought computer," he said, "the task we have designed you to perform is this. We want you to...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much......
DOUGLAS ADAMS The Answer to the Great Question Of.....Life, the Universe and Everything.....(is) Forty-two.
DOUGLAS ADAMS The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, though...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sen...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have...
DOUGLAS ADAMS It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.
DOUGLAS ADAMS In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
DOUGLAS ADAMS He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Anything that is in the world when youre born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existenc...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola
DOUGLAS ADAMS Even traveling despondently is better than arriving here.
DOUGLAS ADAMS The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a...
DOUGLAS ADAMS My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre,' h...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Same as you, Arthur. I hitched a ride. After all, with a degree in maths and another in astrophysics...
DOUGLAS ADAMS He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he pranced ridiculously round the house.
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