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“I don't care what you think unless it is about me.”
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“Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers”
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“It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.”
Source : Anna Katharine Green (2003). “That Affair Next Door and Lost Man’s Lane”, p.18, Duke University Press
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“Regardless of whether the authors I've translated have been "dead and canonized," or "living and established," or even simply "emerging," I must put myself to the same, old test: "can I do their texts justice?" I've translated twenty-one books, and except for three commissions, I "hand-picked" all my authors on the basis of whether my own peculiar idiosyncrasies would complement their own.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.”
Source : "Happy-Go-Lucky Interview". Interview with Anna Smith, www.ign.com. April 18, 2008. 
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“I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now.”
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“You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.”
Source : Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.223, Simon and Schuster
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“No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world.”
Source : "The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation expands its sanitation programme" by Liz Ford, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2011.
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“To love is to will the good of the other.”
Source : "Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas, II-II, q. 26, art. 6, 1265 - 1274.
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“The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.”
