In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
Samuel Beckett
Recitation: by Male by Female
At a young age, when I was fascinated with China, I read 'The Travels of Marco Polo' and learned about this exciting, dramatic world he captured and reported on. He's so little known, but yet this mythology has survived that's so misrepresentative of his story.
John Fusco
AgeWorldStoryYoungLittleChina
Liberalism has never been about establishing a universal standard. Liberalism is simply intellectual cover for those wanting to gain political power and increase the size of the state.
Andrew Breitbart
PowerPoliticalIntellectualNever
Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality.
Mia Maestro
CharacterPersonalitySchoolYouNew
I'm not sure I'd go back and do anything over in my life. I've definitely had my fair share of failures and moments where I wasted my time or that of other people, but if I did those moments over, I'd have missed out on so many lessons.
Trip Adler
LifeTimePeopleMy LifeMomentsGo
By the time I got to songwriting, I had been faced with a lot of troubles as a result of my own collective of trauma. I was someone who instinctively figured out that writing songs about the struggle helps you with the struggle.
Mary Gauthier
TimeStruggleWritingSomeoneResult
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
Jean de la Bruyere
GreatGivingGiftsDealThanLess
I feel like we were so naive when we first got started, we didn't even know we'd be around for two years, given how tough it was when we were first starting out.
Jay DeMarcus
ToughFeelKnowFirstNaiveOut
Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing.
Bruce Dickinson
LifeLoveLife Is Too ShortShort
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Aristotle
GoodMenJealousyGood ThingsEnvy
Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.
Anthony Quinn
BuildingDownIrishMexicoOutWest
I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!'
Polly Bergen
DogSingingBlindSaidThreeLegs
He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.
Pierre Corneille
LifeLiveWhoHeInfamyUnworthy
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