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• I mean, if you've ever been a governor of a state, you understand the vast potential of broadband technology, you understand how hard it is to make sure that physics, for example, is taught in every classroom in the state. It's difficult to do. It's, like, cost-prohibitive.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Technology, Example

  "The Complete Bushisms". www.slate.com. June 24, 2004.

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• Antigun advocates have always faced an uphill battle in this country. Americans have, to begin with, a constitutional right to gun ownership. Today, half of American households exercise this right, owning a total of about 250 million guns; and over 99 percent of those households do so in a responsible manner. To fight for major restrictions on an item that plays such a valued part in the lives of so many people looks like a nearly impossible task. So if you're really committed to the effort, and you want to win, what do you do? Simple: You lie.

  Dave Kopel

  Country, Lying, Fighting

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• I said to myself if Christianity is dead, I will sit at its tomb and will weep until it arises again, just as Mary Magdalene sat at the tomb of Jesus and wept until Jesus showed Himself. Then when I came out of prison I saw Christianity is not dead. The number of practicing Christians in Rumania according to the figures given by the Communists themselves in 20 years of Communist dictatorship has grown 300 percent.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Christian, Jesus, Years

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• There is no Christian Gospel if history simply unwinds into a meaningless puddle, if the cosmos simply escapes into a cataclysmic black hole, or if the universe finally dies of exhausted energy. Without belief in a biblical eschatology, there is no Christian hope. Without a sense of perfect moral judgment in the end, the human heart is homeless.

  Albert Mohler

  Christian, Heart, Biblical

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• If I find a great idea, I work on it at the beginning, then bring in other people to make things work. Actually, I've always been good at getting out of work.

  Paul Orfalea

  Ideas, People, Great Idea

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• What happens with Mad Men, its like an Elvis Costello album; Ill watch it, and then I immediately have to watch it again. AMC will play it back-to-back. I have a tendency to yell at it when my wifes not around because if she catches me yelling at Mad Men, then it gets weird.

  Michael Weatherly

  Men, Yelling, Play

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• Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency is felt throughout all the subsequent growth of the organism.

  George Trumbull Ladd

  Education, Unity, Growth

  George Trumbull Ladd (1899). “Essays on the Higher Education”

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• If you are running anyway, you might as well be chasing your dreams.

  J. B. Bernstein

  Running, Dream, Might

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• If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up and down an expansive stadium?

  Robert Harris

  Golf, Play, Long

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• I had already made a decision early on that I would be a plain girl with tons of personality, and accepting it made everything a lot easier. If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks. I have spent a lifetime coming to terms with this idea and I would say I am about 15 to 20 percent there.Decide what your currency is early. Let go of what you will never have. People who do this are happier and sexier.

  Amy Poehler

  Girl, Letting Go, Ideas

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• If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form.

  Curtis Jackson

  Art, Culture, Finance

  Source: www.complex.com

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• If the bubbles contain a misconception, as they always do, then it can't be maintained forever.

  George Soros

  Forever, Misconception, Bubbles

  Source: globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com

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• There are gems of wondrous brightness
  Ofttimes lying at our feet,
  And we pass them, walking thoughtless,
  Down the busy, crowded street.
  If we knew, our pace would slacken,
  We would step more oft with care,
  Lest our careless feet be treading
  To the earth some jewel rare.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Lying, Knowledge, Jewels

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• If you are smart, you never retire. You may retire from that job you have had for many years, but you will pick up another career for yourself of some type.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Jobs, Smart

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• If I take things slowly today in order to appreciate life better, and if I take time to listen to the messages that life sends me, then I will have less time to do the things I need to do today. Then tomorrow I will have to do everything that much faster and I will be that much more unable to appreciate life. It is dangerous to stop and smell the roses.

  John S. Hall

  Smell, Order, Rose

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.

  Katy Lederer

  Heart, Tree, Profit

  Katy Lederer (2008). “The Heaven-sent Leaf: Poems”, Boa Editions

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• Perhaps it's art; but if it isn't, at least it's something else equally interesting to me!

  George Rickey

  Art, Interesting, Interest

  "Conversations with Artists". Book by Selden Rodman, New York, p. 148, 1957.

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• Something very ugly to you as a person can look beautiful through the viewfinder, but being able to find that beauty, oftentimes, means seeing the humanity within the frame. If you turn that off completely, you don't see at all.

  Zana Briski

  Beautiful, Photography, Mean

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• If you work outdoors be passive, go with the weather. This may mean two hours sheltering from a downpour, followed by a wonderful burst of sunlight and a rainbow.

  John Newbery

  Mean, Weather, Two

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• If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices.

  Simon Heffer

  Wall, Writing, Scotland

  1999 Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinventing of England.

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• Love is a flower of life - sometimes half open, one has to receive it with both hands. Nurture it, so it may open to its full bloom - you will be rewarded with its blessful frangrance. You may be intoxicated for life. If you let it drop on the ground, you have missed the most valuable gift of life.

  Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

  Love, Flower, Hands

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• You cannot do silhouettes in fantasy. Ah, no, you must be faithful. It is, the art, a, what you call, paradox. It is always that you must be simple, and then, if you are simple, you will stimulate the imagination of the observer.

  Ugo Mochi

  Art, Simple, Imagination

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• If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing.

  Tracy Letts

  Failing, Like You, Wells

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• I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.

  Adam Rapp

  Character, Writing, Gun

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• True love survives all shocks: an affection originally produced by admiration for unusual beauty may not only survive the loss of that beauty, but may become more intense if the beauty has changed into ugliness through causes that bind the lovers together in tender associations.

  Arthur Lynch

  Love, Loss, Together

  Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

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