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I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.
Learning
Eric Jensen

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The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
Exercise
Douglas William Jerrold

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They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
Basketball
Earvin ''Magic'' Johnson

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No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.
Responsibility
Gerald W. Johnson

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.
Courage
John Johnson

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Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Architecture
Philip Johnson

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Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Critics and Criticism
Samuel Johnson

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He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
Greatness
Samuel Johnson

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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
Pleasure
Samuel Johnson

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No man was ever great by imitation.
Imitation
Samuel Johnson

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
Life and Living
David Starr Jordan

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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
Books - Reading
Joseph Joubert

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.
Success
Walter Kane

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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.
Marriage
Max Kauffman

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When I was born I owed twelve dollars.
Debt
George S. Kaufman

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Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
Communism and Socialism
John F. Kennedy

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Somebody once said that Washington was a city of Northern charm and Southern efficiency.
Uncategorised
John F. Kennedy

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Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
Cities and City Life
John F. Kennedy

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To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
Possessions
Ken Keyes Jr.

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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
The future
Omar Khayyam

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He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
Common Sense
Charles Kingsley

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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
Marriage
Sam Kinison

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The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
Individuality
Arthur Koestler

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
Happiness
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.
Poverty and The Poor
Melville D. Landon

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun