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"Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with." Bob Wells
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"A college education shows a man how little other people know." Thomas Haliburton
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"The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases." Larry Wall
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"It's important that people know what you stand for. It's equally important that they know what you won't stand for." Mary Waldrip
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"Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique." Jane Rule
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"Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old." Mary Waldrip
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"Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case he was never alive, it being unlikely that he died of old age." John Saul
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"Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language." Carol Shields
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"My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness." Gabrielle Roy
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"Everyone has an equal right to inequality." John Saul
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"A laugh is a smile that bursts." Mary Waldrip
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"I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art." Jane Rule
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"My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for." Jane Rule
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"I believe only in art and failure." Jane Rule
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"Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors." John Saul
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"I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations." Carol Shields
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"I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift." Mavis Gallant
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"People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives." Jane Rule
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"Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen." John Saul
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"Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate." Jane Rule
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"Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy." John Saul
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Audrey Hepburn
Birth: 1929-05-04 Death: 1993-01-20

"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."

Born in 1929, Audrey almost pursued a career in ballet instead of acting. During World War II, it was said that she danced to raise money for the underground movement. While filming Secret People in 1952, director William Wyler spotted her and believed she'd be perfect for the part of the English princess opposite Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday. It was her breakout performance, for which she won an Oscar. She went on to become one of Hollywood's biggest stars. Her beauty, elegance, charm and humor captivated audiences as well as the actors playing opposite her, leading Cary Grant to onc…



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