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If somebody wants me to speak in, say, Chicago, a limousine picks me up at the door to brings me to the airport. I fly at the front of the plane, and a limousine meets me at the other end to take me to a grand hotel, and usually an envelope is left for me with a per diem, maybe $150-a-day walking around money, and then I go home.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Airport Around Brings Chicago Door End Envelope Fly Front Go Go Home Grand Home Hotel Left Maybe Me Meets Money Other Per Picks Plane Say Somebody Speak Take Then Up Walking Wants

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An article in the 'Moscow Times' described Trump as the city's first grand builder since Stalin.

~Franklin Foer

Topics: Article Builder City First Grand Moscow Since Stalin Times Trump

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City farming is not only possible, it is the very definition of the kind of meaningful, sustainable innovation we will need to meet the grand challenges of the 21st century: climate change; population growth; ageing population; urbanization; rising demand for energy, food and water; poverty; and access to healthcare.

~Frans Van Houten

Topics: Access Ageing Century Challenges Change City Climate Climate Change Definition Demand Energy Farming Food Grand Growth Healthcare Innovation Kind Meaningful Meet Need Only Population Population Growth Possible Poverty Rising Sustainable Very Water Will 21St Century

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Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

~Franz Liszt

Topics: Artist Destiny Grand

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The self-driving car revolution was kicked off by The 'DARPA' Grand Challenge to make an autonomous car traverse 132 mi. of a desert.

~Fred Ehrsam

Topics: Autonomous Car Challenge Darpa Desert Grand Kicked Make Off Revolution

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Obamacare is a seriously flawed law that makes health care coverage less affordable, costs taxpayers more than advertised and fails to deliver on most of its other grand promises.

~Fred Upton

Topics: Affordable Care Costs Coverage Deliver Fails Flawed Grand Health Health Care Law Less Makes More Most Obamacare Other Promises Seriously Taxpayers Than

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The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.

~Friedrich Durrenmatt

Topics: Also Consciousness Defined Development Evolution Grand Human Human Consciousness Human Mind Humans Mind Only Seen Total Wars

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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

Topics: Always Been Even Every Grand Grown Inward Lies Power Profound Receives Spirit Too War Which Wounds

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When you're from the Bay Area, there's this chip on your shoulder that you inherently come up with, because us, as a region, we've been overlooked in the grand scheme of the history of the genre and the culture.

~G-Eazy

Topics: Area Bay Bay Area Because Been Chip Come Culture Genre Grand History Inherently Overlooked Region Scheme Shoulder The History Of Up Us You Your

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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

~Gail Carson Levine

Topics: Grand Make Mistakes Scale Very

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