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"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe." »Frank Zappa
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"When you come to a road block, take a detour." »Mary Kay Ash
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"Everyone wants to be Cary grant. Even I want to be Cary grant." »Cary Grant
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"A book tightly shut is but a block of paper." »Chinese Proverb
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"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul." »Joseph Addison
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"Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic." »Arnold Bennett
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"Lord grant that I might always desire more than I can accomplish." »Michelangelo Buonarroti
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"grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant." »Caecilius Statius
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"grant us a brief delay impulse in everything is but a worthless servant." »Caecilius Statius
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"Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth." »William Shakespeare
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"How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!" »Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Chapter 19
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"The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity." »Lewis Grizzard
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"The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards -- and even then I have my doubts." »Eugene H. Spafford
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"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost." »Martha Graham
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"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost." »Martha Graham
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"God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."" »Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789
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"Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings." »Alfred North Whitehead, N. Rose Mathematical Maxims and Minims, Raleigh NC:Rome Press Inc., 1988.
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"Find out what whiskey he drinks and send all of my generals a case, if it will get the same results. - in reply to comments about General Grant's drinking problems" »Abraham Lincoln
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"Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to." »Paul Valery
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"A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood." »Chinese Proverb
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"We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block." »John Kerry, Speech at Democratic Convention, May 31, 2002
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"General grant had a simple, childlike recipe for meeting life ... I am terribly afraid, but the other fellow is afraid, too." »Sherwood Anderson
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"If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after." »Napoleon Hill
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"The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block." »Inigo DeLeon
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"Dug from the tomb of taste-refining time, Each form is exquisite, each block sublime. Or good, or bad,-disfigur'd, or deprav'd,- All art, is at its resurrection sav'd All crown'd with glory in the critic's heav'n, Each merit magnified, each fault forgiven." »Sir Martin Archer Shee
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"grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart." »Martin Luther
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"O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life." »Saint Francis of Assisi
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"I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone." »Gale Brook Burket
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"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest." »W. H. Auden
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"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest." »W. H. Auden
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