Quotern

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If you grew up in a rural area, you have seen how farmhouses come and go, but the dent left by cellars is permanent. There is something unbreakable in that hand-dug foundational gouge into the earth. Books are the cellars of civilization: when cultures crumble away, their books remain out of sheer stupid solidity.

-- Paul Collins

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I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

-- Jackie Kennedy

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The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home.

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

-- Virginia Woolf

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I saw some two-dollar bills today - They were for sale for eight dollars. Something went severely wrong there. What happened? It spun out of control... Now it's worth eight, still says two. I miss the two. I could break a two.

-- Mitch Hedberg

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My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity.

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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

-- Sherwood Anderson

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I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.

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The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

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