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• Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.

  Stockwell Day

  Religious, Sex, Government

  Government Orders: Civil Marriage Act, www.ourcommons.ca. May 3, 2005.

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• I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Inspiring, Strong Women, Compassion

  "The Oprah Winfrey Show", November 9, 2009.

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• I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, Who I Am, Lines

  "Zooey Deschanel is having 'fun, as always' working on she&him follow-up" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. January 22, 2009.

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• It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason.

  Caroline Dhavernas

  Thinking, Trying, Heartbreaking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• With Romeo and Juliet, you're talking about two people who meet one night, and get married the same night. I believe in love at first sight-but it hasn't happened to me yet.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Believe, Night, Sight

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• I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things that happened when I finished Drown was that I got busy living. I'd never travelled, I'd never seen anything. So I did as much travelling as my job teaching would allow.

  Junot Diaz

  Dog, Jobs, Teaching

  "The return of the young master". Interview with Edward Marriott, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2008.

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• I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons.

  Mike Dirnt

  Daughter, Mother, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Novelists, Ragtime, Historian

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.

  Rita Dove

  Surprise, Surprise Me

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• News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  News, Literature, World

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• I think the saddest moment in my life just happened two months ago. My old nightclub partner passed away, Phil Erickson down in Atlanta. He - I owe him everything. He put me in the business and taught me about everything I know.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Thinking, Atlanta, Two

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• We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our little show. Most of the ad- libbing happened during the week on the show.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Littles, Week, Ends

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• Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

  Umberto Eco

  America, Australia, Captains

  "Signs of the times". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2002.

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• It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.

  Umberto Eco

  Writing, Past, Trying

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• What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Differences, Numbers, People

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• Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they've just been trounced in the days before, there's also - always a lot of questions about why that happened.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Race, Knows

  "Elizabeth Edwards answers the real questions so many have". Interview With Larry King, latimesblogs.latimes.com. May 12, 2009.

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• I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'

  Zac Efron

  Girl, Thinking, Talking

  "All New Q&A with Zac Efron". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. June 2, 2006.

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• The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Life, Mean, Law

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• People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

  T. S. Eliot

  People, Events

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

  Havelock Ellis

  Stars, Moon, Long Ago

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• Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Thinking, Political, Example

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• Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

  Eminem

  Black And White, Past, Color

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• A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed.

  Paul Engle

  Horse, Children, Air

  Paul Engle (1960). “Prairie Christmas”

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• If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

  Brian Eno

  Years, Skills, Long

  "Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers talk Scape, iPad apps and generative music". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2012.

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• There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened.

  Julius Erving

  Book, People, Typical

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