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Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right

to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.
Roger Ebert

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.
Percy Heath

Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to 'carry it off.'
Donald Rumsfeld

Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.
Stephen Harper

Pink is the navy blue of India.
Diana Vreeland

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.
Lynne Cheney

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Ann Landers

And as you said, everyone contributed; certain areas of material came from certain individuals.
Billy Sherwood

The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
Garrison Keillor

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