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If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
Bette Davis

Child, Parent, Hated

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marden

Great, Men, Dreamers

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.
Lana Turner

Life, Humor, Public

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
Sun Tzu

War, Battle, After

I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.
Lady Gaga

School, Different, Loser

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
Warren Buffett

Nature, Once, Anyone

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Bill Gates

Design, Simple, Down

All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.
Mitch Hedberg

All religions have been made by men.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Men, Made, Religions

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
Charles Dickens

Life, Great, Heart

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
Ernest Hemingway

Live, Him, Learned

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Before, Perfect, Sometimes

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
Paul Harvey

Times, Helps, Recall

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
Voltaire

God, Whether, Known

My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.
Barack Obama

Two, Try, Problems

What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.
Barack Obama

Faith, Time, Long

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Today, Tomorrow, Lose

Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
Denis Waitley

Time, Health, Two

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
Stephen Hawking

History, Science, May

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
Thomas Sowell

Life, Government, Fair

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.
Barack Obama

Fight, Job, Done

When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.
Barack Obama

Moving, Help, Down

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Napoleon Hill

Men, Thoughts, Earth

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
Patrick Henry

Worth, Books, Bible

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams

Great, Society, Words

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.
Groucho Marx

Mother, Children, She

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
H. L. Mencken

Place, Heaven, Church

I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
Johnny Depp

Life, Problem, Off

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.
Angelina Jolie

Cause, Rebel, Reckless

My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.
Michelle Obama

Love, Family, Mother

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