“ You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled. ”
- Francois Rabelais- Copy
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“ The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret. ”
- Fred Allen- Copy
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“ There will always be someone being picked on at school, and it's not going to go away. ”
- Alexa Vega- Copy
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“ There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also. ”
- Melissa Etheridge- Copy
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“ America slept because most Americans preferred it that way. ”
- Ferdinand Mount- Copy
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“ Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each one of us individually. ”
- Dalai Lama- Copy
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“ Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
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“ The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred. ”
- George Bancroft- Copy
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“ Today we voted as Democrats and Republicans. Tomorrow we begin again as New Yorkers. ”
- Hillary Clinton- Copy
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“ I'm so very proud to be a part of Playmate history. It's such an honor to be one of 12 girls selected each year to represent Playboy all over the world! ”
- Lisa Dergan- Copy
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“ What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice. ”
- Merle Woo- Copy
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“ The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution. ”
- Sir Walter Raleigh- Copy
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“ It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service. ”
- Ulysses S. Grant- Copy
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“ I used to sit on the banks with a raft and watch the water roll lazily by. One day I pushed my raft into the shallows of the water and found the water moved swifter than I thought. My raft was actually a boat. Then, after some time, I rowed my little boat into deeper water… ”
- B. D. Gulledge- Copy
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“ This idea that privilege comes with position is something that's terribly antiquated and doesn't belong in a democracy. These are elected officials who chose to serve the public, and the idea of serving the public doesn't include taking gifts from someone who obviously wants something in return. ”
- Jack Gould- Copy
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“ Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform. ”
- Hubert Bonner- Copy
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“ I've had to hold back certain things for legal reasons, or just out of common decency, but I think autobiography has got to be selected confessions, hasn't it? I could have said jolly things about some of the dreadful people I've spent my life with, but it would have been a cheat. ”
- Tom Baker- Copy
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“ One of the difficulties in bringing about change in an organization is that you must do so through the persons who have been most successful in that organization, no matter how faulty the system or organization is. To such persons, you see, it is the best of all possible organizations, because look who was selected by it and look who succeeded most in it… ”
- George Washington- Copy
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“ We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world, void of national bias, race, hate, and religious prejudice. There should be no indulgence in undue eulogy of the Negro… ”
- Merle Woo- Copy
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