To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.

Barack Obama

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So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.

Kathy Griffin

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If Harvey had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he would want me to say to all the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told they are less than by the churches, by the government, by their families, that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value, and that no matter what anyone tells you, God does love you and that very soon, I promise you, you will have equal rights, federally, across this great nation of ours.

Dustin Lance Black

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Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

Muriel Barbery

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Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.

Marie de France

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A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

Baltasar Gracián

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Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.

A.J. Liebling

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His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.

J.M. Coetzee

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that your power of command
with simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
our century.
(from the poem: result)

Charles Bukowski

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I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

Howard Nemerov

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