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‘‘The thing about fantasy – there are certain things you just don’t do. You don’t have sex near unicorns.’’ ‘‘Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and your mascara runs.’’ ‘‘I don’t believe in God. I believe in Al Pacino.’’ ‘‘Tranquilli­sers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle – keep away from children.’’ ‘‘Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.’’ ‘‘I only take Viagra when I am with more than one woman.’’ ‘‘A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.’’ ‘‘Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?’’ ‘‘Friendship is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.’’ ‘‘My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.’’ ‘‘We use Ann sparingly right now, so that people don’t get tired of her.’’ ’‘Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.’’ ‘‘Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.’’ ‘‘The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.’’ ‘‘By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.’’ ‘‘Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring a more pleasant form of misery.’’ ‘‘When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they’re crazy, because ‘sacrifice’ infers that there was something better to do than being with your children.’’ ‘‘Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.’’ ‘‘A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.’’ ‘‘Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.’’ ‘‘You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.’’ ‘‘Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?’’ ‘‘The truth is incontrove­rtible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.’’ ‘‘Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.’’’

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Mitt Romney
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J K Rowling

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