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The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.

Bennett Cerf

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 25, 1898 - August 27, 1971

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I live a fantastic life. Why should I complain about awards?

Viola Davis

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If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.

Jesse Jackson

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If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I'd not only run, I'd win.

Jesse Ventura

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Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985 I was the United States Ambassador to Honduras.

John Negroponte

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I think there will always be a possibility that God doesn't exist because He is infinitude and into that infinitude must come that possibility.

John Tavener

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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Stevie Wonder

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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

Simone de Beauvoir

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If we can afford food stamps and housing subsidies, why not gun stamps to help urban citizens survive the next Islamist assault?

Tom Tancredo

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Everyone probably says this, but my favorite athlete is Tony Hawk. I'd really love to meet him.

Mason Cook

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This president has said this has to be a priority for our nation, protecting our food supply from terrorist acts, so he continues to provide the funding that is necessary.

Mike Johanns

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You should always go through the first draft of a book all at once, I think, to get the best results. You can take time off after the first draft and come back to it fresh.

Judy Blume

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Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.

Jonathan Sacks

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