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L. Neil Smith
And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.
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Casino
Ace The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids Junk bonds. But in the end, I wound up right back where I started. I could still pick winners, and I could still make money for all kinds of people back home. And why mess up a good thing
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Fred Thompson, Speech before the Commonwealth Club of California
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
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Dagobert D. Runes
Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.
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Helen Keller
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
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Jane Adams
The excellent becomes the permanent.
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Niels Henrik David Bohr
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough
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Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal.
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Marya Mannes, The Quotable Woman...on Love & Relationships
All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
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Marcel Proust
Desire makes everything blossom possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Alexander Pope
In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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Suzanne Gordon
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
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