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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. W. Somerset Maugham

Freedom Money Will Values Lose Nation Too More Comfort Than Irony Anything

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other. August Wilson

Love Needs You World Laughter Other Hand Anybody Need

A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat or babble, but speaking in public with authority is still the greatest transgression. Elfriede Jelinek

Work Woman Value Through Chat Greatest Becomes Still Permitted Authority Famous Public Transgression Speaking Who Her Babble

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general. Lorraine Hansberry

Loneliness Woman People Challenge Men Own Herself Willing Runs General Risk More Potential Pursue Interesting Much Who Exposure Her

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others. Moliere

Good Before Thinking Others Ought Oneself Look Deal Condemning Good Deal

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. Moliere

Great History Political Books Dancing Great Leaders Misfortunes Arisen Leaders Merely Failures Tragic History Books Lack Blunders Mankind Skill Fill Ills

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me. Noel Coward

Me Memory Fact Consult Like Often In Fact Elephant Elephants

I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again. Noel Coward

Sometimes Thought Marrying Again Then

Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again. Noel Coward

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. Raymond Hull

Will Everyone He Soon Himself Whittle Who Away Suit

Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have. Sean O'Casey

Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can you be? How can you know what to do? We have our history. We have our book, and that is the blues. August Wilson

History You Book Our About Blacks Shame Know How Stigma America Forget Blues Want Who Slavery

Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it. Beau Willimon

Politics Political Campaign You Change People World Political Some People Young Change The World Other Side Drawn Out See Some Only Tactics Joined Like Sort Off Campaign Itself Person Get Micro Gets Any Young Person Turned Use Who Start Desire

To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations. George Ade

Peace Mind Peace Of Mind Rules Insure Ignore Regulations

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. George Seaton

Faith You Sense Tells Common Common Sense Believing Things

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. Jean Kerr

You Losing Situation Possible About Head Just Your Grasped Keep

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