There is no education like adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli
Recitation: by Male by Female
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.
John Burns
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Weird Al was something that kids would listen to. It's funny, super funny, smart. It's just kind of jokey. I remember hearing 'Smells Like Nirvana' before hearing 'Smells Like Teen Spirit.' That's how it really worked. I think it's just such a cool thing how he introduced us to so many cool bands. Even Queen - 'Another One Rides the Bus.'
John Gourley
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Most poor families are living completely unassisted in a private rental market, devoting most of their income to housing. When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much more of an inevitability than the result of personal irresponsibility.
Matthew Desmond
PeopleResultYouLivingMeetPoor
God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.
Jefferson Davis
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People come with the record done but just need a little more sauce on top. That's what I'm good at.
Mike Dean
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I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.
Louise Mensch
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I went to my prom. I wore this olive green, floor-length backless dress. It was rad.
Lorde
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I don't think all music that is considered 'avant-garde' is bad, but it's definitely elitist. I hope my music is not that.
Julia Holter
MusicHopeThinkBadElitist
I always felt that I had to leave a legacy on the African continent. As I was only the third player to come to the NBA from Africa, I felt I had to do my best to recruit more young Africans to come and play in the NBA - and also find a way to bring the NBA to Africa.
Dikembe Mutombo
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They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
William Penn
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There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
Philip Levine
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I never really watched much stand-up growing up. I just was not really that into it. But I can say I honestly fell in love with it the second I touched the microphone. It was like this weird thing where it's like, 'Oh, yeah, this is what I'm supposed to do.'
Phoebe Robinson
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