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When conservatives talk to one another, pay attention: they say what they want to do, and mean it. And will do just about anything to get there - even, or especially, claiming that they don't want to do the thing they want to do, until the time is ripe, and they can do it.

Rick Perlstein

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I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment.

John Burnside

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The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.

John Bardeen

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Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.

Robert McNamara

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I run with music all the time. I cannot run without my iPod. I have everything. Teddy Pendergrass. Luther Van Dross. Michael Jackson. Outkast. If an Usher song comes on and it's fast, I go fast.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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I took many trips down to New Orleans trying to experience the city as deeply as possible. I'm from Detroit so New Orleans seemed very exotic to me.

Ruta Sepetys

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We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

Mary McDonnell

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As a modern woman, there are things I take for granted, and that shows up in the way I sit, the way I walk, the way I think, and what I know to be possible.

Lorraine Toussaint

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A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

Joshua Reynolds

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President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a little in the center. He didn't want one person filtering all the information that went to him. He had always operated with a lot of information coming in and a lot of stuff going out.

Dee Dee Myers

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It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it.

Christine Gregoire

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Age is just a number. Life and aging are the greatest gifts that we could possibly ever have.

Cicely Tyson

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I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pilgrim' is sort of one long novel, and it's so long that I get confused and sort of tread water sometimes. But there's definitely a goal to it. People who just dismiss it as shallow, that's their prerogative, but it's not really my intent.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

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