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Brendan Francis Behan
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
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Ferris Bueller\'s Day Off
Grace Oh, he's very popular Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads--they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Commencement Address at Harvard University, June 8, 1978.
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites...
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Marcus Valerius Martialis
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Babe Ruth
I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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John Comenius
To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view of this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human...Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity.
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Sarah Brady
The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.
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Claude Swanson
When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.
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Nicholson
Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friendship's firm laws obey.
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Publilius Syrus (c. 42 BC)
It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.
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Walt Whitman
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
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Richard Clark
The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.
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