As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.
Gloria Swanson
Recitation: by Male by Female
One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.
Jim Yong Kim
LeadershipHumilityYouImportant
Most of what we know about human life we know from asking people to remember the past, and as we know, hindsight is anything but 20/20. We forget vast amounts of what happens to us in life, and sometimes memory is downright creative.
Robert J. Waldinger
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The reason why I'm in Parliament is not really to see my colleagues win power; it is to see us at last in a position where we can give it up.
Michael Gove
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While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.
John Yoo
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If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
Stephen King
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The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
Stephen Ambrose
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My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society.
Martin Parr
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I love reading other people's diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf's - such a formidable woman that it's a revelation when she shows you a more vulnerable side of herself.
Michael Palin
LoveWomanPeopleReadingSomeone
I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving.
Liza Minnelli
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The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing.
Josiah Stamp
MoneyNothingOutSystemBanking
When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
Douglas Coupland
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I went to a private boys' school, and we had girls in the last two years.
Chris Lilley
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