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"(Kenneth) Star...(has) done what I could not do in a quarter century: make pornography more widely available." »Larry Flint, on the evidence against Pres Bill Clinton
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"Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century." »Mark Twain
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"People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman." »Erma Bombeck
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"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century." »Dan Quayle
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"Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon." »John Berger
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"Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century." »Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun-Times, November 5, 2001
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"We are in the 21st century; what are the kings or the queens doing in this century? They must remain in the past!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man." »Henry Wallace
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"What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why I don't know. Biological imperative Divine law Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing." »Andrew Schneider
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"[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand." »Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)
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"A dollar saved is a quarter earned." »John Ciardi
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"Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter." »Jonathan Swift
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"I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building." »Steve Jobs
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"Instead of putting a quarter under a kid's pillow, how about a pinecone That way, he learns that 'wishing' isn't going to save our national forests." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"With reasonable men I will reason with humane men I will plea but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost." »William Lloyd Garrison
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"With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost." »William Lloyd Garrison
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"With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost." »William Lloyd Garrison
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"J. Jonah Jameson Hoffman, run down to the patent office and market the name Green Goblin. I want a quarter every time someone says it." »Spider-Man
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"Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone." »Sigmund Freud
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"Good words, good deeds, and beautiful expressions A wise man ever culls from every quarter, E?en as a gleaner gathers ears of corn." »Mahabharata
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"The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century." »Jerry Coleman
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"If what we said cannot go beyond the century we live in, it means that we have said nothing. Let us say something for all the centuries!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century." »Bertrand Russell, Playboy Interview - March 1963
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"Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century." »Dame Edna Everage, In a television interview with Joan Rivers
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"In the 20th century, specialisation has become the counterfeit of brilliance." »Richard Gordon
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"Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century." »Alfred Edward Perlman
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"The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century." »William Lyon Phelps
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"That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century." »F.W. Lawvere
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"Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago" »Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
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