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There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.

-- Marilynne Robinson

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Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.

-- Walter Russell Mead

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Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair.

-- Ellen DeGeneres

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Men will not change as long as women 'marry up.' Men won't change until we have a perspective on how powerless power makes us. A woman cannot help a man change until she has a perspective on how powerless power makes men.

-- Warren Farrell

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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

-- Henry Van Dyke

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If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb.

-- Louise Slaughter

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A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things.

-- Clyde Tombaugh

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My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.

-- Balthazar Getty

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The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.

-- Albert Camus

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Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.

-- Sinclair B. Ferguson

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