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We are a constitutional democracy. We must deal with things properly within the framework of the law and then the constitution.
Written by Jacob Zuma
In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.
Written by Lukas Foss
Perhaps this is because I'm from the generation that grew up watching 'The Jetsons' on TV, but I really thought we would be much more advanced in the areas of transportation and medicine.
Written by Pat Cadigan
In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.
Written by Jonathan Safran Foer
I never admit to wishing I'd written something by another author, but if my name mysteriously appeared on the title page of 'The Guns of August,' I wouldn't complain.
Written by H. W. Brands
Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16.
Written by Hugo Weaving
This is other people's money that Washington is appropriating and spending.
Written by Stephen Fincher
In the entertainment industry, careers don't last very long - and online, careers last an even shorter amount of time.
Written by Burnie Burns
My life is pretty small. Even as a successful scientist, I'm not a public figure. I like people - I just don't know that many!
Written by Hope Jahren
It infuriates me that when people forget what it's like not to be a Christian, and they get into other people's face about their life or their beliefs. It's amazing to me that people feel their relationship is so solid with God that they have enough time on their hands to question mine or to fix mine.
Written by John Schneider
I think I am a religious person just by nature. I think I sort of view everything through the lens of some inner undying thing in people that drives them to act as they do or to feel ashamed of not acting in some other way.
Written by John Darnielle
I've got some news... I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we're over the moon.
Written by Adele
With foxes we must play the fox.
Written by Thomas Fuller
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Written by Anais Nin
Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.
Written by Bobby Scott
$While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs.$

While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs.
Written by Ron Eglash
Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you don't feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel you're making art.
Written by Stephen Sondheim
Hatred is self-punishment.
Written by Hosea Ballou
How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?
Written by Anne Hutchinson
I don't have hair anymore. I've shrunk. I'm barely 6 feet 2 inches. I just had my teeth fixed because I'm a grinder.
Written by Terry Bradshaw
My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.
Written by Brene Brown
You cannot break a horse until they're about 2 years old. You can halter-break them, meaning teach them how to lead and stuff, if you choose to, but you can't really break them until they're 2 because there aren't developed enough, you know what I mean? It would be like a 5-year-old playing football or something, you know?
Written by Brady Jandreau
Maybe directors who are more interested in realism and naturalism come from cities, where they see things on their doorstep every day. But growing up as a kid in a very pretty but ever-so-slightly boring town, where not a great deal happened, encouraged me to be more escapist, more imaginative, and more of a daydreamer.
Written by Edgar Wright
U.S. corn exports to CAFTA countries will benefit from reduced tariffs and duty-free access for corn products.
Written by John Shimkus
I like tattoos. I'm gonna be covered. I'm not going to touch my face or under the chin on the neck: it's my least favorite place.
Written by Mac Miller
I've had lots of friends who've gone through 'Battlefield' situations in their relationships, so when I was singing the song I put myself in their position and tried to imagine what they were going through. I got so, so into it and I think you can tell.
Written by Jordin Sparks
I like a lot of soul, but I also put a lot of folk into what I do.
Written by Michael Kiwanuka
I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.
Written by Ian Hacking
Israel is a mishmash of other cultures. It's like New Orleans; it's a meltdown of other cultures.
Written by Anat Cohen
Fartlek, or speed play, is variable-pace running that emphasizes creativity. During a 30-minute run, choose objects to run to - telephone poles, trees, buildings, other runners, whatever. Make choices that mark off different distances, so your pickups vary in length from 15 to 90 seconds, and modify your pace to match the distance.
Written by Don Kardong

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