Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
Vittorio Alfieri
Recitation: by Male by Female
At the decisive Boston town meeting of Nov. 29, 1773, while ships loaded with cargo from the East India Company idled in the harbor, Thomas Young was the first and only speaker to propose that the best way to protest the new Tea Act was to dump the tea into the water.
Matthew Stewart
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I worked in the Senate in the 1970s. I worked for the Labor, Public Welfare Committee, and we had Ted Kennedy and my old boss, Bill Hathaway, and Walter Mondale.
Angus King
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Belgium is half French-speaking and half Flemish, and I was born on the French side. So we spoke it a lot - like, in kindergarten, it was almost all French. But then I moved to New Zealand when I was 10, where we obviously spoke English all the time, so I lost the French a little bit.
Stella Maxwell
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Our forefathers got it; they got it, man. They took godly principles and they put them into action, and they developed our Constitution - the land of freedom where each man is accountable and responsible for his actions.
Luke Scott
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We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.
Jay Weatherill
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The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think.
Don Tapscott
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Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.
Conor Oberst
LifeMeThinkYouNeverAlways
I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
Bobby Fischer
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I'm gonna reveal something to you that's going to come as a shock: If you're a stupid young man, you're usually a stupid old man. Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.
William Shatner
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When you wish upon a star, you just might become one.
Paula Abdul
WishYouBecomeStarMightJust
There's almost no problem that can't be solved. That's important as a premise. History has proven it over and over again.
Sebastian Thrun
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I dare say that if most comedians today, the gifted ones, were to sit down and write, they'd learn more about their craft. But what happens is they get out there before they learn what their viewpoint is, if any.
Mort Sahl
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