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Quote by Samuel Johnson
The greatest part of a writers time is spent in reading in order t

The greatest part of a writers time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. – Samuel Johnson

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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. – Samuel Johnson

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Money
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Samuel Johnson
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Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return. – Samuel Johnson

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Vacations
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Samuel Johnson
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins. – Ulysses S. Grant

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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. – Walt Whitman

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People who dont know me have opinions about me. Thats the part thats very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if youve never met them or spent any time with them? So its all based upon hearsay or things that theyve read. – Rick Barry

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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes. – George Bernard Shaw

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When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better. – Maria Sharapova

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It may be that we shall, by a process of sublime irony, have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation. – Sir Winston Churchill

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It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me. – Hayao Miyazaki

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The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: Its a girl. – Shirley Chisholm

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