"King Richard: From this day forward, all toilets in this kingdom shall be known as...'Johns'!"

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“It's Wheird, there's an H in there. Gotta hit that H otherwise they think I'm some sort of a kook!”

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“Moses : God has given us these fifteen— Oy! Ten — ten commandments!”

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"Dani said this woman, with whom she'd lived for two years, had never known her. "I feel like people accept the first thing I show them," she said, "and that's all I ever am to them."

— Mary Gaitskill

Literature1954

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"Resistance to cold is as part of physical education as the gymnastic exercises. It is why the bare torso must be the rule all the time when the atmospheric conditions are not too unfavorable."

— Georges Hébert

Philosophy1875–1957

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"He entered into life with a burden that most of us bear: with the example of great men before his eyes and the desire to follow in their footsteps, but without any knowledge of petty men, who are the …"

— Meša Selimović

Literature1910–1982

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