#am

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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People that really know me will tell you that I am not a video vixen. ↗

— Nina Blackwood

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I am working on my nightclub act, definitely want to do more singing. ↗

— Keith David

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We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

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You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one's friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

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Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. ↗

— Josh Billings

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As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. ↗

— Josh Billings

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. ↗

— Josh Billings

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I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War. ↗

— Larry David

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A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties. ↗

— Russell Banks

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