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So many people die with their dreams in their hands. ↗

— Alex Rogers

#inspirational #life #life-and-death #motivational #death

We're not nearly as violent as the westerns. ↗

— Moe Howard

#violent #westerns

Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#affair #any #been #care #consulted

When I was young, my mother would not let me get my ears pierced because I used to get into too many fights. ↗

— Kelly Hu

#ears #fights #get #i #into

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#ignorance #knowledge #opinions #perpetual #recipe

Did you feed the fish?” Nick closed his eyes. “Alexa, I’m working.” She made a rude snort. “So am I. But at least I worry about poor Otto. Did you feed him?” “Otto?” “You kept calling him Fish. That hurt his feelings.” “Fish don’t have feelings. And yes, I fed him.” “Fish certainly do have feelings. And while we’re discussing Otto, I wanted to tell you I’m worried about him. He’s placed in the study and no one ever goes in there. Why don’t we move him into the living room where he can see us more often? ↗

— Jennifer Probst

#funny

We pursued the wrong policies. George Bush is not on the ballot. Bill Clinton is not on the ballot. Mitt Romney is on the ballot, and Barack Obama is on the ballot. And Mitt Romney is proposing tax reform, regulatory reform, a wise budget strategy and trade. The president has proposed tax increases. ↗

— Glenn Hubbard

#barack #barack obama #bill #bill clinton #budget

What Governor Romney is proposing is an across-the-board cut in marginal tax rates for households, every household in America by 20 percent. And we'll have to broaden the base to pay for that. Also, a very deep cut in the corporate rate. ↗

— Glenn Hubbard

#america #base #broaden #corporate #cut

What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system. ↗

— Kurt Huber

#body #deficiencies #existing #i #insight

If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#been #footnote #governor #had #i