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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Topics: Abandon Account Claim Enables Enemy Essence Future Head High Himself His Hold Hope Inspiration Man Optimism Others Present Resigned Source Takes Vitality Where

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I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel?

~Don Bluth

Topics: Because Cannot Claim Enthusiasm Explain Made Make Money Original Secret Sequel Why

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Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim.

~Donald Judd

Topics: America Anybody Anyone Claim Culture Grand Now Painting Pompous Say State Thing Think Too Well Would I Think

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We all have heard it claimed that 13 is an 'unlucky number.' Indeed, there are many hotels in America that for this very reason claim not to have a 13th floor, in the sense that there is no button bearing the label '13' in their elevators (I recently stayed in one in New York, in fact).

~Douglas Hofstadter

Topics: America Bearing Button Claim Claimed Fact Floor Heard Hotels In Fact Indeed Label Many New New York Number Reason Recently Sense Stayed Unlucky Very York

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I don't claim to be some Aaron Sorkin expert, but it is like a Camelot. His shows are a place where people are trying to reach their highest potential. And I think we miss that sometimes. If I got a chance to do 'The Newsroom,' I would have done it yesterday.

~Dule Hill

Topics: Chance Claim Done Expert Got Highest His Like Miss Newsroom People Place Potential Reach Shows Some Sometimes Think Trying Where Would Yesterday I Think Aaron

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Presumptuously, I speak for all Who fans when I say being a fan of the Who has incalculably enriched my life. What disturbs me about the Who is the way they smashed through every door of rock & roll, leaving rubble and not much else for the rest of us to lay claim to.

~Eddie Vedder

Topics: About Being Claim Door Else Enriched Every Fan Fans Lay Leaving Life Me Much My Life Rest Rock Roll Say Smashed Speak The Who Through Us Way Who

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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.

~Edith Stein

Topics: Breadth Cannot Character Claim Community Culture Distinctive Emerges Ethnic Having Mentality People Scope Special Still Unless Until

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It was not necessary and might even have been disadvantageous for a government to claim a direct personal commission and communion of the kind God had given some rulers in the Old Testament. A working government might need the support of the Church but not of God Himself in a voice from on high.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Been Church Claim Commission Communion Direct Even Given God Government Had High Himself Kind Might Necessary Need Old Old Testament Personal Rulers Some Support Testament Voice Working

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Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.

~Edward Levi

Topics: Arts Builds Changing Claim Definitions Ends Law Liberal Liberal Arts Like Persuasion Practical Should Uses Words

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If a person's self-worth derives from being the only woman in the field, how much affection can she feel toward another woman who might challenge that claim to fame?

~Eileen Pollack

Topics: Affection Another Another Woman Being Challenge Claim Derives Fame Feel Field How How Much Might Much Only Person Self-Worth She Toward Who Woman

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