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France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper. Billy Wilder
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In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season. Lou Gehrig
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Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me. Lionel Richie
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One thing that I miss because we spend a lot of time in America is English food, like cooked breakfast and Sunday dinners. Louis Tomlinson
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He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go. Louis L'Amour
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All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.
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Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
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If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.
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Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.
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As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
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Know when to hold 'um, know when to fold 'um and know when to walk away from cameramen. Kenny Rogers
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We have to have a conversation about whether Obama's plan to increase spending to occupy Afghanistan helps make America a safer country, or not. I think at some point, we may decide that we don't have to have that size military and cost footprint in the country. You look at what you want to accomplish, how many soldiers you need. Grover Norquist
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite. Barbara Smith
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The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for traditional marriage and the sanctity of life; Texas, the root of the conservative tree. Should the Left succeed in its attempt to turn Texas purple, America could turn permanently blue. Ben Shapiro
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An overall trend of political moderation in Latin America makes for far less interesting headlines, but it also makes for far better lives for our people. Oscar Arias
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We know the average construction worker in America is 53. We also know that America's youth is not lining up to learn the skilled crafts. . . . If the federal government doesn't come up with a functional guest-worker program, we will have some problems, and not just in Arizona. David Jones
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We know that the FBI has a difficult and necessary mandate to protect Americans from the next terrorist attack, ... We are here to deliver a short but powerful message -- to keep America safe and free. Anthony Romero
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We have to withdraw from this undemocratic institution and ensure that these people no longer have any influence on British affairs. We would like to see other European nations do the same thing. I think that will happen. Steve Blake
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No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart... it comes from being alive. Richard Carlson
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It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.
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When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.
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Circumstances don't make a person; they reveal him or her.
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The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.
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America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.
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Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.
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QuickBooks - the very fact that we could even dream to make something in the business arena, and that it would then succeed - was a total revolution to me.
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What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households. Sarah Orne Jewett
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The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.
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We need for America to get back to basics and focus on the middle class's quality of life. Healthcare reform is vital to restoring that standard of living. Sander Levin
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In 1940, President Roosevelt called on American industry to become the 'great arsenal of democracy.' Automotive manufacturers in Michigan responded and converted their assembly lines from cars to tanks and helped America win World War II.
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We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Sam Keen
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But the reason America is a great country, the reason is because our compassion is in our laws. And when we live by those laws and we treat everybody equally under the law, that's when people feel good about being Americans. Rick Santorum
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People of faith, people of no faith, people of different faith, that's what America is all about; it's bringing that diversity into and challenge of the different ideas that motivate people in our country. That's what makes America work.