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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

Quintilian

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FearFuturePresentFortuneWorse

Americans should be ashamed of how aflutter they get about Downton Abbey - it's unpatriotic. I seem to remember we fought a revolution so as not to put up with this nonsense, where notions of station are so unforgiving that upper and lower echelons are practically different species.

Steve Erickson

RevolutionRememberNonsenseAshamed

Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy.

Steve Bannon

WomenCrazyControlBirthMakes

Shoes and clothing damage our ability to survive naked in the wilderness.

Steve Mann

ShoesSurviveWildernessNakedOur

Every once in a while, we need to watch something that makes us feel.

Russell Hornsby

FeelNeedWatchSomethingUsOnce

We're led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with political correctness, but yet everybody's scared to death of it. So who is it? Well, it's the power structure wherever you happen to be.

Rush Limbaugh

PowerDeathBelievePoliticalYou

Chew on this: Human teeth can detect a grain of sand or grit 10 microns in diameter. A micron is 1/25,000 of an inch. If you shrank a Coke can until it was the diameter of a human hair, the letter O in the product name would be about 10 microns across.

Mary Roach

HairNameGritSandYouTeeth

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

Miranda Richardson

BeachChildhoodIdealMuchSounds

I think Alaskans expect me to think, to think about them and do the right thing for them.

Lisa Murkowski

Do The Right ThingMeThinkRight

Having already had one glorious marriage, perhaps I ought to count myself lucky and stop while I'm ahead.

Judith McNaught

MarriageMyselfStopAheadLucky

I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'

Demetri Martin

MorningTodayHopeDecisionDayYou

Francis Lawrence is an astonishing filmmaker, an incredibly gifted visual filmmaker. I have great respect for his work.

David Slade

WorkRespectGreatGiftedFilmmaker

Acting is a smaller piece in a big puzzle. There are charity things I want to immerse myself in and want to have the time to go and give back to people who don't have the opportunities I have. It's a very important thing to me.

Ashley Greene

TimeMyselfPeopleMeOpportunities

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