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“All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.”

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“I've never had the impertinence to be sorry for Helen Keller. I'd as soon be sorry for Niagara Falls. But now as I bring the story up to date, I'm shriveled with shame when I recall that at times in my life — my easy life — I've actually been sorry for myself. You too? We've got our nerve, haven't we?”

“At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.”

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— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Politics1934–2017

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"There are jobs I could work, temp jobs, call center jobs, tech support, if I had to. I have before, and I suspect that there will be times in my life when I have to get those jobs again, when I have t…"

— Joey Comeau

Literature1980

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"Each one of our thoughts changes the world in a tiny but subtle way. Multiply this by... the billions in the world, and human thought has an enormous impact."

— F. David Peat

Philosophy1938–2017

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