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The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is not an ivory tower or a quiet room in a sanitarium facing away from the afternoon sun. It is, rather, a command center, a power base. A board room, a war room. An Oval Office for all who preside over their own destinies. One does not retreat from the world here; one prepares to join it at an advantage.
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It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made.
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You can't please everyone. You've got to please yourself, I guess.
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Far be it for me to imagine that Zion contains none but Calvinistic Christians within her walls, or that there are none saved who do not hold our views
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Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.
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Spineless politics do not change the mind of a tyrant.
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A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal
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And he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures.
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I was extremely shy and had a terrible fear of public speaking. But I had fallen in love with stand-up.
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On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.
