“ You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself. ”
- Douglas Coupland- Copy
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“ Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Busy work brings after ease;Ease brings sport and sport brings rest;For young and old, of all degrees,The mingled lot is best. ”
- Joanna Baillie- Copy
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“ Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket. ”
- Mary Roberts Rinehart- Copy
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“ Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses. ”
- William Maxwell Aitken- Copy
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“ Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others. A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five. ”
- Groucho Marx- Copy
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“ For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands. ”
- Christina Rossetti- Copy
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“ No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
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“ A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. ”
- Groucho Marx- Copy
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“ Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone… I never yet met with, or heard of, a judge who was not a slave of this kind, and so the finest and most unfailing weapon of injustice… ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene. ”
- Ben Hecht- Copy
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