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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
Carl Sandburg

Words, Remember, Living

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
Carl Sandburg

Book, Become, Coming

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
Lord Byron

Society, Bored, Two

Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular.
Alveda King

Evil, Lie, Humanity

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
Marquis de Sade

Everything, Joy, Means

I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.
Heath Ledger

Good, Future, Live

The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
Jack Welch

Work, Hard, Around

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.
Spike Lee

Women, Men, Black

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
Alexander Pope

Before, Rich, Poor

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
Sophocles

Men, Tongue, Ground

I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I'm gonna rip it off.
Ellen DeGeneres

Small, Off, Until

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Jane Austen

Cannot, Laughing, Witty

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Love, America, Nation

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
John W. Gardner

Education, Today, Wonder

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
Pope John XXIII

Light, Beginning, Church

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
W. Somerset Maugham

Book, Eyes, Read

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
W. Somerset Maugham

Life, Single, Book

And by the way I don't object if people want to attack me, that's their right. All I'm suggesting that it's not going to be very effective and that people are going to get sick of it very fast. And the guys who attacked each other in the debates up to now, every single one of them have lost ground by attacking.
Newt Gingrich

Single, Lost, Sick

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Liar, Call, Writer

I need more friends. It's kind of like my quest right now just to have more true friends.
Miley Cyrus

True, Friends, Quest

There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great.
Matthew Perry

Life, Great, Bad

In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.
Chuck Norris

Change, Control, America

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
Gore Vidal

Top, Television, Hungry

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.
Henry Miller

Life, Character, Here

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.
Ellen DeGeneres

Patience, Learning, Mind

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.
Newt Gingrich

Fact, Ignorant, Afford

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
William Glasser

Education, Teacher, Bad

Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.
Mattie Stepanek

Future, Away, Far

Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.
Jim Valvano

Time, Hope, Give

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.
America Ferrera

Life, Thankful, Important

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