Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

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Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

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There are conservative people in all colours in America.

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You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I've been trying to change it ever since.

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Knowing what must be done does away with fear. – Rosa Parks

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You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can't put things off thinking you'll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and sooner or later you will. So I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.

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God, it would be good to be a fake somebody rather than a real nobody. ― Mike Tyson

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The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.

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Whether Barack Obama is simply incompetent as president or has some hidden agenda to undermine this country, at home and abroad, he has nearly everything he needs to ruin America, including a fool for a vice president ― Thomas Sowell

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Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.

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