We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
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E. LOCKHART And when I saw you kissing that girl
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And ...
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GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... All good people agree,
And all good people say,
All nice people, like Us, are We
An...
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GARY F EVANS... You either have the feeling or you don’t.
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MARK TWAIN As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: Wh...
JOHN TRUMBULL How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are! [...] When we ar...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny!
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MANILIUS ...We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore.
We will be united in our common interests....
BILL PULLMAN We don't know when consumers will start buying our products again.
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DAVID IZZO What we are doing is, rather than living on the interest of our basic biological capital, we're ...
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BRONTE CAMPBELL There's an astonishing statistic we call the 'gasp number' because the jaws dropping are palpable wh...
PAT O'MALLEY We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born...
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JOSIAH STAMP I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don...
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DAVID HUME Once we got that under our belt, we stepped right up again and played really well.
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DANIEL BRIERE We lost the same way [as last time]. We got beat in our home stadium. We thought we were good last t...
BRIAN URLACHER we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI When we parade in London next month, a world record will be the last thing on our minds, more so giv...
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MIKE D When we were kids, I remember we'd use lemon in our hair and go into the sun, hoping it would ma...
ANA IVANOVIC Our voices will be heard in the future when we take up an advocacy issue,
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