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"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." »H.L. Mencken
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"Even a stopped clock is right two times a day." »Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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"Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped." »Groucho Marx
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"Eternity is the stopped heart of Time." »Sorin Cerin
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"Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting." »Elizabeth Bowen
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"Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children." »Mignon McLaughlin
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"I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter." »Steven Pearl
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"There was a young man of Dundoo,
Whose limericks stopped at line 2." »Anonymous
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"A mistake proves that someone stopped talking long enough to do something." »Phoenix Flame
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"How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak?" »Jay Leno
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"My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today." »Richard Adams
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"Frost When was the last time you stopped to appreciate a good sunset- oh yeah that's right. You were born a vampire." »Blade
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"Because I could not stop for Death -- He kindly stopped for me -- The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality." »Emily Dickinson
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"Becuase I could not stop for Death
He kindly stopped for me
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality" »Emily Dickinson
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"Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying." »Ronald Reagan
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"To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream." »Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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"Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped." »Sam Levenson
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"I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph." »Shirley Temple Black
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"When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself." »Nancy Friday
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"One day we had a conversation where we figured we could just try and predict the stock market... and then we decided it was illegal. So we stopped doing that." »Eric Schmdit
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"He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion." »Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2
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"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph." »Shirley Temple
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"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph." »Shirley Temple
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"When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped." »Marcel Archard
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"When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman." »Betty Naomi Friedan
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"We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty." »Mark Twain
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"It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat." »Robert Martin Fuoss
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"Your food stamps will be stopped effective March, 1992, because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances." »Greenville County (S.C.) Department of Social Services, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
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"It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it." »Jeff Melvoin
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"In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment." »George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
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