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There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.

-- Helen Thomas

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During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.

-- Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

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If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.

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It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that can't stand it. In Switzerland it's the lack of noise that drives me crazy.

-- Geraldine Chaplin

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I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.

-- Samuel L. Jackson

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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Byron says that it is easier to die for the woman one loves that to live with her.

-- Andre Maurois

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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outside world at a distance, if they area dream into which you sink as if into a drug, or bridges you cast toward the outside, toward the world that interests you so much that you want to multiply and extend its dimensions through books.

-- Italo Calvino

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If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it.

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