"You just think lovely wonderful thoughts and they lift you up in the air."

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“Do you believe in fairies?...If you believe, clap your hands!”

“I just want always to be a little boy and have fun.”

“Wendy, one girl is worth more than twenty boys.”

“Split my infinitives, but 'tis my hour of triumph!”

“The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.”

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Resonant Thoughts

"For everything that you do, there are people who appreciate your work and then there are those who don't. I think very few people have the guts to be sure of what they are doing, believe in it, and th…"

— Nastassja Kinski

Entertainment1961

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"They said that I had sold out and Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view. But I have my thoughts. And I think they're race-hustling poverty pimps."

— J. C. Watts

Politics1957

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"I think it's good that we put in lots of new things back then."

— Takashi Tezuka

Military1960

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"Nothing is more alien to the present age than idleness. If we think of resting from our labours, it is only in order to return to them. In thinking so highly of work we are aberrant. Few other culture…"

— John Gray (philosopher)

Philosophy1948

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