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The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

-- Clarence Darrow

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Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

-- Isabel Allende

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May God be with me! May Heaven bless this New Year. May it be a year of fruitfulness, of peace and prosperity; may it be a year of peace and unity for all mankind; may the world be freed of cholera.

-- Giacomo Meyerbeer

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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals.

-- G. C. Lichtenberg

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And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough oneness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is as though Nature needs must make men narrow in order to give them force.

-- W. E. B. Du Bois

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Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming out in the theater. I think that goes for a lot of shows today.

-- Michael Imperioli

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The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.

-- Mercy Otis Warren

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In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

-- Orson Scott Card

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Marriage is the last sacrament available to modern man, and with the terrible destruction of interpersonal relations by capitalism and its war-making State, it is not very available, nor is it surely enduring. But then, vision does not come with guarantees.

-- Kenneth Rexroth

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We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.

-- Malcolm Wallop

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