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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

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With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses. ↗

— James K. Polk

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What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear? ↗

— Donald Pleasence

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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. ↗

— Colin Powell

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I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community. ↗

— Colin Powell

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The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley. ↗

— Charley Pride

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Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes. ↗

— John C. Ransom

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No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. ↗

— Jackie Robinson

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