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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
To us, it might look like just a rag. But to the brave, embattled men of the fort, it was more than that. It was a flag of surrender. And after that, it was torn up and used for shoe-shine rags, so the men would look nice for the surrender.
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Steven Runciman
I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destiny of man.
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Robert Byrne
Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
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Arthur Gingold
Working in the theater has a lot in common with unemployment.
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Marshall McLuhan, "Gutenberg Galaxy", 1962
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
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President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio
America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.
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Time Bandits
Benson, you are so free of the ravages of intelligence
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Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading (1934) chapter 8
Literature is news that stays news.
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Buddha
As the flectcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.
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Karin Ireland
No one can give you authority. But if you act like you have it, others will believe you do.
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