Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
Matthew Arnold
Recitation: by Male by Female
For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.
Joe Biden
GovernmentStepLawDemocracyLegacy
The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?
Jeremy Paxman
PeopleOwnershipTelevisionTaxWhy
People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.
Andrea Bocelli
PeopleBlindLeisureActivitiesVery
I got so lucky on my 'Red Widow' cast. It was just the universe looking out for me that I got those actors. It's a big ensemble cast, a very international cast. I don't know how that happened.
Melissa Rosenberg
RedMeLookingUniverseKnowLucky
'Jack & Diane' was originally about race. I was playing nightclubs, and I was seeing new American couples, mixed-race couples. I thought it was cool. The song was my effort to make a song about that, but of course the record-company guy didn't like it.
John Mellencamp
EffortCoolSongThoughtAmerican
There are stories to be told that are still untold and characters to be portrayed that haven't been portrayed correctly. So there's work to be done.
Shonda Rhimes
WorkDoneBeenStillStoriesUntold
After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.
Robyn Hitchcock
WorkWantMoreSoftJustAfter
Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.
Martin O'Malley
LeadershipDecisionBestSometimes
After my 10-match ban in 2013 for biting Branislav Ivanovic, I had questioned the double standards and how the fact that no one actually gets hurt is never taken into consideration.
Luis Suarez
HurtNeverStandardsDoubleFact
Yeah, I miss it. You don't just break off a friendship you've had with a sport, and with all those you've met all over the country. We've got some friends, some very close friends, and you just sit back and think how fortunate you were having a career like that. And, actually, there's nothing in the game of baseball that hasn't happened to me.
Lou Boudreau
FriendshipBaseballMeGameThink
Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.
Dolly Parton
LifeSuccessTimeThinkKeyRoll
Literature is the immortality of speech.
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
LiteratureSpeechImmortality
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