#sai

Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily. ↗

— Dorothy Day

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It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. ↗

— Stockwell Day

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What, if as said, man is a bubble. ↗

— Marcus Terentius Varro

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The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

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I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

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So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.' ↗

— Tim Vine

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I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. ↗

— Jimmy Dean

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Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously. ↗

— Barbara Deming

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Who ever said that one was born just once? ↗

— Jacques Derrida

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