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Our great American writers were all newspaper people. ↗

— John Gould

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There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

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If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

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There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

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What differences were there between Maradona and Platini? ↗

— Michel Patini

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With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery. ↗

— Paul Berg

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The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase. ↗

— Yogi Berra

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We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

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Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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Happy Days was about a family... although the show was shot in the 70s, it was about a family in the 50s. I realized that kids were watching their parents grow up and the parents were watching themselves grow up. That was the key to the success of our show. ↗

— Tom Bosley

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