Quotable Quotes

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Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.
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Louis Menand
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Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
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Albert Einstein (The Quotable Einstein)
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People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
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Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.
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Fulton J. Sheen (The Quotable Fulton Sheen: A Topical Compilation of the Wit, Wisdom, and Satire of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen)
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In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214)
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Albert Einstein
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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Abigail Adams (The Quotable Abigail Adams)
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Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
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I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.
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Albert Einstein (The Ultimate Quotable Einstein)
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters
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Thomas Jefferson (The Quotable Jefferson)
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Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey.
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Ernest Hemingway (QUOTABLE HEMINGWAY: An A to Z Glossary of Quotations from Ernest Hemingway (Quotable Wisdom Books))
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Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.
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Christopher Hitchens (The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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Always make your future bigger than your past.
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Dan Sullivan (The Quotable Dan Sullivan)
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Pleasure is an attitude, not a person or place. Β  β€”Diary 6, pg. 52
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AnaΓ―s Nin (The Quotable Anais Nin: 365 Quotations with Citations)
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Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.
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Christopher Hitchens (The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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Person 1: "Stay back....I have a demon inside of me." Person 2: "Let me get closer...I have a hell inside me where your demons can live." (from Dark Winter, #2 - out Halloween 2014)
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John Hennessy
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To paraphrase the very quotable Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, in the future there will be two types of jobs: people who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do. Wall
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Antonio GarcΓ­a MartΓ­nez (Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley)
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Nadine Gordimer (The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer)
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It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
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Tom Stoppard
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Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman (Veterans of the Psychic Wars)
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Politics is for the moment and equation is for eternity.
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Albert Einstein (The Quotable Einstein)
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The problem with open-mindedness is that it can become empty-mindedness
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Christopher Hitchens (The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.
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J.A. Konrath (The List (Konrath/Kilborn Collective, #1))
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quote Quotable Quote β€œMimpi-mimpi kamu, cita-cita kamu, keyakinan kamu, apa yang kamu mau kejar, biarkan ia menggantung, mengambang 5 centimeter di depan kening kamu. Jadi dia nggak akan pernah lepas dari mata kamu. Dan kamu bawa mimpi dan keyakinan kamu itu setiap hari, kamu lihat setiap hari, dan percaya bahwa kamu bisa. Apa pun hambatannya, bilang sama diri kamu sendiri, kalo kamu percaya sama keinginan itu dan kamu nggak bisa menyerah. Bahwa kamu akan berdiri lagi setiap kamu jatuh, bahwa kamu akan mengejarnya sampai dapat, apapun itu, segala keinginan, mimpi, cita-cita, keyakinan diri.. Biarkan keyakinan kamu, 5 centimeter mengambang di depan kening kamu. Dan… sehabis itu yang kamu perlu cuma kaki yang akan berjalan lebih jauh dari biasanya, tangan yang akan berbuat lebih banyak dari biasanya, mata yang akan menatap lebih lama dari biasanya, leher yang akan lebih sering melihat ke atas, lapisan tekad yang seribu kali lebih keras dari baja, dan hati yang akan bekerja lebih keras dari biasanya, serta mulut yang akan selalu berdoa.. Keep our dreams alive, and we will survive..
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Donny Dhirgantoro (5 cm)
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Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild.
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Stephen King (Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption)
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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Nadine Gordimer (The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer)
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I've never written a quote I feel would be suitable for my gravestone. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were this one? Oh, and could you pull a few weeds while you're here?
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Ryan Lilly (Write like no one is reading)
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The future begins today.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
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I will love you until you run out of reasons to not love me, And then, I will love you a little more.
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Harshita Gottipati (Born A Free Spirit)
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If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots the brain so fast.
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Christopher Hitchens (The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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I don't cry. Unfortunately, I seem rather short of tears, so my sorrows have to stay inside me.
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Nadine Gordimer (The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer)
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If it isn't urgent, worry about it later
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Albert Einstein (The Quotable Einstein)
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Blurbs don’t work anymore!” was another. β€œYou should make sure that the quotable lines of dialogue in your book never exceed a hundred and forty characters!” seemed at best debatable.
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Scott Westerfeld (Afterworlds)
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The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can't be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus.
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Christopher Hitchens (The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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Of what value is your life, unless you are willing to sacrifice it for those you love?
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
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Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself.
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Henry David Thoreau (The Quotable Thoreau)
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A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a restraining order.
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Ryan Lilly
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Aphrodite is about love and beauty. Being loving. Spreading beauty. Good friends. Good times. Good deeds.
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Rick Riordan (The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1))
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Think of this as a short book composed entirely of what I hoped would be a long book's quotable passages.
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Sarah Manguso (300 Arguments: Essays)
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my personal life philosophy is always to assume the worst, then you’re never disappointed. BAM! Highlight that previous sentence, baby! It’ll be one of many quotable life-nuggets you’ll be able to pull from this thing.
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Felicia Day (You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost))
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Out of the cradle onto the dry land here it is standing: atoms with consciousness; matter with curiosity. Stands at the sea wonders at wondering: I a universe of atoms an atom in the universe.
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Richard P. Feynman (The Quotable Feynman)
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If the counsel of the peaceniks had been followed, Kuwait would today be the nineteenth province of Iraq. Bosnia would be a trampled and cleansed province of Greater Serbia, Kosovo would have been emptied of most of its inhabitants, and the Taliban would still be in power in Afghanistan. Yet nothing seems to disturb the contented air of moral superiority of those that intone the "peace movement".
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Christopher Hitchens (The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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The more I get to know men, the more I love dogs.
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Charles de Gaulle
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Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?
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Malcolm Bradbury (Eating People is Wrong)
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A broken heart can be as lethal as a bullet to the brain.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
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Look lak we done run our conversation from grass roots tuh pine trees.
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Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God)
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In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is the art of pairing unique quotations with complementary images in order to express thought-provoking ideas, challenging concepts, profound sentiments'.
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Alex Morritt (Lines & Lenses)
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I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earned that right.
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Nadine Gordimer (The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer)
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A steadfast heart does not stray from the path.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman (Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest)
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You want weapons? We’re in a library. Books! Best weapons in the world. This room’s the greatest arsenal we could have.’ THE DOCTOR, TOOTH AND CLAW
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Cavan Scott (The Official Quotable Doctor Who: The Wit and Wisdom of Doctor Who)
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In books, that which is most generally interesting is what comes home to the most cherished private experience of the greatest number. It is not the book of him who has travelled the farthest over the surface of the globe, but of him who has lived the deepest and been the most at home.
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Henry David Thoreau (The Quotable Thoreau)
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Happiness is not to be found at the bottom of a bottle or from the tip of a needle; it is not to be found amidst a cloud of smoke or within a sugar-coated pill. If you look for it in these places, you will find naught but despair.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman (Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest)
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The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them.
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Christopher Hitchens (The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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I don't make jokes, I just watch the government and report the facts.
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Will Rogers (The Quotable Will Rogers)
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When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to deathβ€”ourselves. β€”EDA LESHAN
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Reader's Digest Association (Quotable Quotes)
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Give a man a fish and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.
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Jack Huberman (The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Non-Believers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound: Ammunition for Nonbelievers, Political ... Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound)
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The more you care, the more you fear.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
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There are those who will resent you for not being confined by their limitations.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
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The problem with communication…is the illusion that is has been accomplished.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Sarah Palin appears to have no testable core conviction except the belief (which none of her defenders denies that she holds, or at least has held and not yet repudiated) that the end of days and the Second Coming will occur in her lifetime. This completes the already strong case for allowing her to pass the rest of her natural life span as a private citizen.
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Christopher Hitchens (The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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She'd make them wish they were never Alison DiLaurentis's friends in the first place. She didn't know how, and she didn't know when, but at least she had one person she could count on to help her carry it out. Together, they were going to make it happen. Even if it killed her.
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Sara Shepard (Ali's Pretty Little Lies (Pretty Little Liars, #0.5))
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You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too.
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Christopher Hitchens (The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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Nadine Gordimer (The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer)
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If you ask, 'What happens when we die? Why do we die?' you are asking, 'Why do we live?
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Nadine Gordimer (The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer)
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You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
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Nadine Gordimer (The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer)
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There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." -Will Rogers
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Will Rogers (The Quotable Will Rogers)
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Life is difficult and those who make us laugh are angels.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
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As we live in an insane world major, maybe it's time we gave insane solutions a chance.
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John Wayne (The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon)
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Sarcasm is a manifestation of anger, and anger can make you the puppet of your opponents.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman (Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest)
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Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman (Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest)
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Generally it must be stated that realpolitik has been better at dividing than at ruling. Take it as a whole since Kissinger called on the Shah in 1972, and see what the harvest has been.
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Christopher Hitchens (The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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The books we read help to shape who we are. Reading offers us, as children, our first independence- allowing us to travel far beyond the confines of our immediate world. Books introduce us to great figures in history, narratives that stir our spirit, fictions that tug us out of ourselves and into the lives of a thousand others, and visions of every era through which human beings have lived. And in the process of stretching who we are, books also connect us to all others- of our own or previous times- who have read what we've read. In the community of readers, we instantly become linked to those who share our love for specific characters or passages. A well-composed book,' says Caroline Gordon, 'is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
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Ben Jacobs (The Quotable Book Lover)
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Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman (Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest)
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Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.
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Christopher Hitchens (The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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I respect those who say that the United States should simply withdraw from the Middle East, but I don't respect them for anything but their honesty.
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Christopher Hitchens (The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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Death is really the mystery of life, isn't it?
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Nadine Gordimer (The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer)
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It is a rule of life that we eventually become victims of the evil we do to others.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
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With what infinite & unwearied expectation and proclamations the cocks usher in every dawn, as if there had never been one before.
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Henry David Thoreau (The Quotable Thoreau)
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Cries for justice are often the bitter laments of the vengeful.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman (Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest)
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[An example of misattribution:] If you don’t know the source of a quote, you can always make it sound better by attributing it to me. β€” Mark Twain
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Jakub Marian (333 Wittiest Quotable Quotes)
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All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed β€” only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.” –
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Nikola Tesla (The Quotable Tesla)
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Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly sinisterβ€”that redolence of moral blackmail that adheres to certain charitable appeals and certain kinds of politician. (Not for nothing is baby-kissing the synonym for public insincerity.)
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Christopher Hitchens (The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. Β  β€”D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study, pg. 20
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AnaΓ―s Nin (The Quotable Anais Nin: 365 Quotations with Citations)
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As some heads cannot carry much wine, so it would seem that I cannot bear so much society as you can. I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough of it this year I shall cry all the next.
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Henry David Thoreau (The Quotable Thoreau)
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The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.
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Henry David Thoreau (The Quotable Thoreau)
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Be yourself” is about the worst advice you can give some people. β€”THOMAS L. MASSON, AMERICAN AUTHOR
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Eric Grzymkowski (The Quotable A**hole: More than 1,200 Bitter Barbs, Cutting Comments, and Caustic Comebacks for Aspiring and Armchair A**holes Alike)
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Any critique of realism must begin with a sober assessment of the horrors of peace.
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Christopher Hitchens (The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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Mightier than the sword, the pen may be; but the tongue is mightiest of all.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
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I feel the deepest, heartfelt pity for any adult who has never been in love.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
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What if, as an act of worship, creating something meant healing and restoration took place instead of pain and frustration?
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Michelle Dennis Evans
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The point of protesting about 'moral equivalence' is surely not to blur moral choices on β€˜our side’. Is it?
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Christopher Hitchens (The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.
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Mark E. Silverman (The Quotable Osler - Revised Paperback Edition)
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I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.
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Nadine Gordimer (The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer)
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I'm an atheist. I wouldn't even call myself an agnostic. I am an atheist.
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Nadine Gordimer (The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer)
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She spoke with all the authority vested in her by her flea-market prayer beads and her lotus-flower tramp stamp.
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Joshilyn Jackson (The Opposite of Everyone)
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Liberty Valance is a cancer on this fair town. He's the cancer and I'm the, uh...what cures cancer?
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John Wayne (The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon)
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Jack Huberman (The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Non-Believers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound: Ammunition for Nonbelievers, Political ... Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound)
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You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself. β€”ENGLISH PROVERB
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Reader's Digest Association (Quotable Quotes)
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Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of life forever eludes them.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
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It's always good to be underestimated.
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Donald J. Trump (The Quotable Trump)
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We Americans are not God’s covenant people. America has, in any event, no biblical guarantee of perpetuity.
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Carl F.H. Henry (Carl Henry at His Best: A Lifetime of Quotable Thoughts)
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It is a very remarkable and significant fact that though no man is quite well or healthy yet every one believes practically that health is the rule & disease the exception.
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Henry David Thoreau (The Quotable Thoreau)
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Communists are the last optimists.
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Nadine Gordimer (The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer)
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Testy McTesterson
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Nietzsche wrote, "One often contradicts an opinion when it is really only the tone in which it has been presented that is unsympathetic". Or, as The Dude put it: "You're not wrong, Walter - you're just an asshole". Less quotable, and often overlooked, is Walter's response: "Okay, then." The Walters of the world don't mid being assholes; what matters to them is being right.
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Tim Kreider (We Learn Nothing)
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Take this neat little equation here. It tells me all the ways an electron can make itself comfortable in or around an atom. That's the logic of it. The poetry of it is that the equation tells me how shiny gold is, how come rocks are hard, what makes grass green, and why you can't see the wind. And a million other things besides, about the way nature works.
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Richard P. Feynman (The Quotable Feynman)
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Their findings about who these people are should sound familiar by now: "high tolerance for ambiguity"; "systems thinkers"; "additional technical knowledge from peripheral domains"; "repurposing what is already available"; "adept at using analogous domains for finding inputs to the invention process"; "ability to connect disparate pieces of information in new ways"; "synthesizing information from many different sources"; "they appear to flit among ideas"; "broad range of interests"; "they read more (and more broadly) than other technologists and have a wider range of outside interests"; "need to learn significantly across domains"; "Serial innovators also need to communicate with various individuals with technical expertise outside of their own domain.
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David Epstein (Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World)
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Johnny Flora "The Spell of Zalanon" > quotable quote (edit) "Every page of a great novel should be crafted like a beautiful melody, to linger on long after the music stops playing." β€” Johnny Flora "The Spell of Zalanon
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Johnny Flora
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I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits.
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AnaΓ―s Nin (The Quotable Anais Nin: 365 Quotations with Citations)
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The prejudiced are easily manipulated.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
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Thought is more dangerous than you think.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
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Rice is great when you’re hungry and you want two thousand of something.” Β Β Β Β β€”Mitch Hedberg
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Holden Blunts (The Quotable Stoner: More that 1,100 Baked, Lit-Up, and Zonked-Out Quotes in Tribute to (and as a Result of) Smoking Weed)
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The socialism I believe in is everyone working for each other, everyone having a share of the rewards. It's the way I see football, the way I see life.
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Bill Shankly (The Quotable Shankly)
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If everything isn't black and white I say why the hell not.
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John Wayne (The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon)
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A trip to nostalgia now and then is good for the spirit, as long as you don’t set up housekeeping. β€”DAN BARTOLOVIC KPUG-KNWR, Bellingham, Wasington.
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Reader's Digest Association (Quotable Quotes)
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Nothing that would invent a mosquito is worthy of anything but hate.
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Jack Huberman (The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Non-Believers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound: Ammunition for Nonbelievers, Political ... Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound)
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doesn’t hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.
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Reader's Digest Association (Quotable Quotes)
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It is unfortunate that for some, kindness is an unwarranted expenditure, compassion an avoidable weakness, and love an unnecessary gamble.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
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I am thinking by what long discipline and at what cost a man learns to speak simply at last.
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Henry David Thoreau (The Quotable Thoreau)
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The silence ringsβ€”it is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audibleβ€”I hear the unspeakable.
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Henry David Thoreau (The Quotable Thoreau)
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When you repay evil with evil, you become evil.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
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When people speak, listen carefully and pay particular attention to what they are not saying.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
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Where there is great love there is great harmony of thought.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman (Veterans of the Psychic Wars)
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After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well. Remark
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Albert Einstein (Quotable Einstein: An A to Z Glossary of Quotations)
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Mirror, mirror on the wall," She caught Beu's gaze in the reflection. "Who's the handsomest man of all?
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Lucy McConnell (Never Ever After (Quotable Romance Book 2))
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Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is deeply and personally concerned about my sex life." "If God doesn't like the way I live, let him tell me, not you." "Out of convicted rapists, 57 percent admitted to reading pornography; 95 percent admitted to reading the Bible.
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Jack Huberman (The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Non-Believers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound: Ammunition for Nonbelievers, Political ... Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound)
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The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.” Β Β Β Β β€”CARL SAGAN
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Holden Blunts (The Quotable Stoner: More that 1,100 Baked, Lit-Up, and Zonked-Out Quotes in Tribute to (and as a Result of) Smoking Weed)
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. . . If you really care about a serious cause or a deep subject, you may have to be prepared to be boring about it.” [Letters to a Young Contrarian (New York: Basic Books, 2001), 122]
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Windsor Mann (The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism -- The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
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Bertrand Russell (The Quotable Bertrand Russell)
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Every day one reads meretricious babble about 'globalization' and the abolition of frontiers, most of it amounting to little more than celebration of the worldwide availability of Wheel of Fortune.
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Christopher Hitchens (The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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The friends of Galtieri, Saddam Hussein, Mullah Omar and Milosevic make unconvincing defenders of humanitarian values, and it can be seen that their inept and sometimes inane arguments lack either the principles or the seriousness that are required in such debates.
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Christopher Hitchens (The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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Sensuality is beautiful, and dominance and submission in the right context is a passionate art. A muse which ignites the flame of femininity, which enraptures both partners in complete euphoria, magnifying both the masculine and the feminine in one tantalizing unit.
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Sai Marie Johnson
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Those who worry about the treatment of animals are often accused of sentimentality or of putting the plight of beasts before the immense problems of humanity. But it is quite rare to find a humanitarian who is indifferent to animals and surprisingly common to find that those who belittle animal rights are the same ones who find the pain of humans easy to bear.
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Christopher Hitchens (The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one? Cosmic
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Albert Einstein (Quotable Einstein: An A to Z Glossary of Quotations)
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Hey, Captain Neckbeard! Less talky-talky, more worky-worky!” Wednesday shouted rudely down at the man who had been changing the tire. She wasn’t planning on taking shit from a tow truck driving hick today or any other day.
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Dennis Sharpe (Wednesday)
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If one purges all subsequent additions from the original teachings of the Prophets and Christianity, especially those of the priests, one is left with a doctrine that is capable of curing all the social ills of humankind. Statement
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Albert Einstein (Quotable Einstein: An A to Z Glossary of Quotations)
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The interview went well. I found him warm but not eager, friendly but slightly impersonal, and he answered all questions concerning music with an engaging straightforwardness. Nonmusical questions he either evaded with the skill of an expert, or ignored, apparently from lack of interest in the subjects broached. Already he had the gift of fielding impertinent questions by offering quotable evasions instead. For instance, I remember asking him if he was a religious person. He replied that he didn't want to talk about religion. "Why not?" I pursued. "Because my music is so very odd already that I see no reason to make myself sound any odder.
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Philip Glass (Opera on the Beach: On His New World of Music)
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Jealousy Is An Emotion I’ve Never Felt.Envy Maybe.Like I’d Be Envious Of Say, Rihanna Who Is So Young, So Cool, She’s Done Amazing Work.But I’ve Never Felt The Need To Be Jealous.Maybe, Because I’ve Been Lucky Enough To Have Contentment In What I Do.
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Priyanka Chopra
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I believe with all my heart that standing up for America means standing up for the God who has so blessed our land. We need God’s help to guide our nation through stormy seas. But we can’t expect Him to protect America in a crisis if we just leave Him over on the shelf in our day-to-day living. Speech, New Orleans, November 16, 1982
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Ronald Reagan (QUOTABLE REAGAN: An A-Z Collector's Edition of Quotations (Quotable Wisdom Books Book 40))
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My dad. I don’t really know where to begin other than to say he simply wasn’t a β€œdad.” He was this mythical creature. Part unicorn, part violent storm. And although he separated from my mom when she was pregnant, I somehow knew to forgive him. It’s as if I could grasp as a kid that this horse was so wild, he couldn’t be pinned down, and even if he could I am not sure you would want him around. This was the kind of man you saw in small doses. They were memorable. Sometimes dark, sometimes humorous, sometimes quotable.
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Drew Barrymore (Wildflower)
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There is no conceit equal to false modesty, and there is no politics like antipolitics, just as there is no worldliness compare with ostentatious antimaterialism.
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Christopher Hitchens (The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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Everyone has a right to be stupid. Some people abuse the privilege. β€”JOSEPH STALIN
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Eric Grzymkowski (The Quotable A**hole: More than 1,200 Bitter Barbs, Cutting Comments, and Caustic Comebacks for Aspiring and Armchair A**holes Alike)
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It must be horny douchebag day,” she mumbled under her breath as she slid the bag’s strap up on her shoulder.
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Dennis Sharpe (Wednesday)
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The creative act is not pure.
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Nadine Gordimer (The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer)
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I opened the telegram and said, 'He's dead.
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Nadine Gordimer (The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer)
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Quotes are echos of voices transporting wisdom, humor, and love. Returning again to the human condition, fleeting once more as a dove.
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Ryan Lilly
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The best cure for a stick up your butt is a dog to play fetch with.
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Ryan Lilly
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Laughter is much better than anger.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
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It is difficult to learn anything worthwhile if you only listen to those who share your views.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
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My name is John Wayne. When I was a kid I had ring worm. Hell, I was more worm than boy for a couple of years.
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John Wayne (The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon)
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If you're with someone, but you're constantly worried about what they think of you, you're with the wrong person.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
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And so he plays his part; the sixth age shifts'... I usually have trouble with that phrase.
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John Wayne (The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon)
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The contrarian dogma is simple and easy to understand: β€œWhatever is popular is wrong,” as Oscar Wilde proclaimed at London’s Royal Academy of Arts.
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Windsor Mann (The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism -- The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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Every advance in human civilization, from the spread of science and literacy to the abolition of slavery, has had to meet the objection that it violated God-given laws.
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Windsor Mann (The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism -- The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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What happens in you is more important than what happens to you.
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Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
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Our brains are our command centers. Every thought and belief pattern we hold to be true within our core is accepted and implemented by our bodies.
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Adiela Akoo
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those who call for β€˜English Only’ believe themselves to be speaking English when they are mounting a mediocre patois,
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Windsor Mann (The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism -- The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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To try is to accept the possibility of failure. Simply do.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman (Veterans of the Psychic Wars)
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The test of a well-conducted argument is not its ability to convert or to persuade. It lies in its capacity to refine or to redefine the positions of the other side.
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Windsor Mann (The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism -- The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim. β€”GEORGE CARLIN, AMERICAN COMEDIAN
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Eric Grzymkowski (The Quotable A**hole: More than 1,200 Bitter Barbs, Cutting Comments, and Caustic Comebacks for Aspiring and Armchair A**holes Alike)
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Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.
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Eric Grzymkowski (The Quotable A**hole: More than 1,200 Bitter Barbs, Cutting Comments, and Caustic Comebacks for Aspiring and Armchair A**holes Alike)
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The β€˜environment’ is not the gift of entrepreneurs, risk takers, or investors. It is the common, inherited property of humanity.
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Christopher Hitchens (The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.
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Reader's Digest Association (Quotable Quotes)
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Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.
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Reader's Digest Association (Quotable Quotes)
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Love is a rare and precious thing. Squander it at your peril.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
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The selfish are seldom secure.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
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To dispense knowledge without moral guidance would be grossly irresponsible.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman (Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest)
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I am of the nature of Stone. It takes the summer’s sun to warm it.
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Henry David Thoreau (The Quotable Thoreau)
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Modesty isn’t always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman (Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest)
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As long as the peace-makers are armed with assault rifles, it's highly unlikely we'll ever have peace.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman (Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest)
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The weak will try to convince you that weakness is strength.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
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I love listening to the sound of your heart beating, the comforting memory of a cuddling womb.
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Adiela Akoo (Lost in a Quatrain)
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A little more compassion and a little less anger is what most of us need.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
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If we would aim at perfection in any thing, simplicity must not be overlooked.
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Henry David Thoreau (The Quotable Thoreau)
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Science is a long history of learning how not to fool ourselves.
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Richard P. Feynman (The Quotable Feynman)
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The deficit, then, is not the difference between what America spends and what America earns; it is, to a striking extent, the difference between what the rich owe and what the rich pay.
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Christopher Hitchens (The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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Wow. This place looks classy. The smell of fertilizer and rot is really in this season. Remind me, what are we doing here?” she asked looking at him with a coy smile. β€œDid we come for bait?
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Dennis Sharpe (Wednesday)
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There is, and there always has been, an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed by the measurement of I.Q.
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Christopher Hitchens (The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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Guns, double-crosses, hitmen… I can get used to a lot of things, but I’m never going to get used to sleeping where apocalypse bugs mate,” Wednesday said, walking into the room looking around. She dropped her Birkin on the floor and heard something scuttling behind the cheap plastic wood print veneer covered dresser. She turned to face Alvin, her head cocked to the side. β€œSeriously. I’m not saying five-star… I’m saying go on Expedia and find a place that actually has stars… any stars.
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Dennis Sharpe (Wednesday)
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The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. THE MASTER-WORD IN MEDICINE, IN AEQUANIMITAS, 368.
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Mark E. Silverman (The Quotable Osler - Revised Paperback Edition)
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No fairer destiny could be allotted to any physical theory than that it should of itself point out the way to the introduction of a more comprehensive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case.
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Albert Einstein (The Ultimate Quotable Einstein)
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The measure of an education,” you write elsewhere, β€œis that you acquire some idea of the extent of your ignorance.” And that’s all that β€œagnosticism” really means: it is an acknowledgment of ignorance.
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Windsor Mann (The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism -- The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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The Law of Man is inferior to the Law of God for the mere fact that man is held responsible if he were to unintentionally breach it even if he were not aware of the existence of such man-made statutes.
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Ibrahim Ibrahim (Quotable: My Worldview)
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But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else's fate to some extent.
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Malcolm Bradbury (Eating People is Wrong)
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Some people say it’s a sign of intelligence to be able to keep two contradictory ideas in your head at the same time, and it can be a sign of intelligence. It can also be a sign of stupidity, or of unwillingness to make up the mind.
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Windsor Mann (The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism -- The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering from want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got.
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Henry David Thoreau (The Quotable Thoreau)
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Anonymous > Quotes > Quotable Quote β€œI see life as a roadside inn where I have to stay until the coach from the abyss pulls up. I don’t know where it will take me, because I don’t know anything. I could see this inn as a prison, for I’m compelled to wait in it; I could see it as a social centre, for it’s here that I meet others. But I’m neither impatient nor common. I leave who will to stay shut up in their rooms, sprawled out on beds where they sleeplessly wait, and I leave who will to chat in the parlours, from where their songs and voices conveniently drift out here to me. I’m sitting at the door, feasting my eyes and ears on the colours and sounds of the landscape, and I softly sing – for myself alone – wispy songs I compose while waiting.
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Fernando Pessoa (The Book of Disquiet)
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The torpedo launch console has big square plastic buttonsβ€”Flood Tube, Open Shuttle, Ready to Fireβ€”that flash red or green, like something Q would have built into James Bond’s Aston Martin. The missile compartment has similarly retro-looking panels of buttons. They provided the setup for one of the more quotable things Murray said to meβ€”a line that, were fewer precautions in place, could have joined β€œHouston, we’ve had a problem” or β€œWatch this” in the pantheon of understated taglines for calamity: β€œI wouldn’t lean on that.
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Mary Roach (Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War)
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. One of the most idiotic jeers against animal lovers is the one about their preferring critters to people. As a matter of observation, it will be found that people who β€˜care’—about rain forests or animals, miscarriages of justice or dictatorshipsβ€” are, though frequently irritating, very often the same people. Whereas those who love hamburgers and riskless hunting and mink coats are not in the front ranks of Amnesty International.
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Windsor Mann (The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism -- The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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Eden Ashe > Quotes > Quotable Quote(edit) β€œShe shifted in his pocket, pressing her back against his chest. "It's iron." Instead of walking into the elevator, he glanced down at her. If he kept craning his neck this way, he was going to have a hell of a nasty headache by the time he made it home. Not to mention the looks he was getting from his taff for talking to himself, he was going to end up in a psych hold if this kept up....” "We're on the tenth floor. I'm not taking the damn stairs...." "...I'm not talking to myself. I have a fairy in my pocket who's afraid of elevators.
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Eden Ashe
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My heart is the expert, my head, the conspiracy theorist. Neither one is always right, but I know which one I’ll be listening to.
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Broms The Poet (Feast)
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IRISH BLESSING Β  And may I conclude with a little Irish blessing – although, some suggest it’s a curse: May those who love us, love us. And those who don’t love us, may God turn their hearts. And if He doesn’t turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles so we’ll know them by their limping. Speech on Administrative Goals to Senior Presidential Appointees, September 8, 1987
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Ronald Reagan (QUOTABLE REAGAN: An A-Z Collector's Edition of Quotations (Quotable Wisdom Books Book 40))
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If the president summons the other party to legislate laws to guarantee the best outcome of his executive mandates, then he has every right to do so and the other party must comply and do the tasks which were assigned to them. However, if they refuse to do so, then they are directly responsible for the loopholes (and their consequences) which are present in previous legislation.
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Ibrahim Ibrahim (Quotable: My Worldview)
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A. I want my readers to remember a book of mine after they’ve turned the last page, partly so they will want to read more from me, but also because I want them to feel that reading it was well worth their time. I guess I want a book that I write to be more than entertainment that is enjoyable for the moment but forgettable as the months go by. I don’t make a conscious effort to craft quotable prose when I write, but I do endeavor to pose questions and suggest insights that speak across the pages into a reader’s life. For me, that translates into a good reason for having read the book. I always remember a book more fully and longer if I’ve been so emotionally tugged that I find myself highlighting phrases I don’t want to forget. And I usually can’t wait for that author’s next book! Khaled Hosseini’s books are always like that for me. Q.
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Susan Meissner (Stars Over Sunset Boulevard)
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I got some funny reactions, a lot of irate reactions, as if I were somehow taking people's fun away from them. I have nothing against sports. I like to watch a good basketball game and that sort of thing. On the other hand, we have to recognise that the mass hysteria about spectator sports plays a significant role. First of all, spectator sports make people more passive, because you're not doing them; you're watching somebody doing them. Secondly, they engender jingoist and chauvinist attitudes, sometimes to quite an extreme degree. I saw something in the newspapers just a day or two ago about how high-school teams are now so antagonistic and passionately committed to winning at all costs that they had to abandon the standard handshake before or after the game. These kids can't even do civil things like greeting one another because they're ready to kill one another. It's spectator sports that engender those attitudes, particularly when they're designed to organise a community to be hysterically committed to their gladiators. That's very dangerous, and it has lots of deleterious effects.
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Noam Chomsky (The Quotable Chomsky)
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Trickle-down economics "So long as power remains privately concentrated, everybody, everybody, has to be committed to one overriding goal, and that's to make sure that the rich folk are happyβ€”because, unless they are, nobody else is going to get anything. So, if you're a homeless person sleeping in the streets of Manhattan, let's say, your first concern must be that the guys in the mansions are happyβ€”because, if they're happy, then they'll invest, and the economy will work, and things will function, and then maybe something will trickle down to you somewhere along the line. But if they're not happy, everything's going to grind to a halt, and you're not even going to get anything trickling down.
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Noam Chomsky (The Quotable Chomsky)
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Will Smith > Quotes > Quotable Quote β€œThe only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill. I will not be out-worked, period. You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, you might be sexier than me, you might be all of those things you got it on me in nine categories. But if we get on the treadmill together, there's two things: You're getting off first, or I'm going to die. It's really that simple, right? You're not going to out-work me. It's such a simple, basic concept. The guy who is willing to hustle the most is going to be the guy that just gets that loose ball. The majority of people who aren't getting the places they want or aren't achieving the things that they want in this business is strictly based on hustle. It's strictly based on being out-worked; it's strictly based on missing crucial opportunities. I say all the time if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready.
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Will Smith
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The term '20/20 vision' implies good if not perfect sight. May the advent of 2020 - a new year, a new decade - see a lifting of the fog which has recently blurred the edges of what can be described as 'acceptable political discourse', and in the process refocus voter attention on the clear need to demand from elected representatives, a display of basic decency and decorum in public life - both of which have been seriously lacking in the behaviour of some high profile politicians on both sides of the pond, on an eye-watering number of occasions. That indeed would be a sight for sore eyes.
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Alex Morritt (Impromptu Scribe)
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It is one of the evils of rapid diffusion of news that the sorrows of all the world come to us every morning. I think each village was meant to feel pity for it’s own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is the duty of any private person to fix his mind on ills which he cannot help. (This may even become an escape from the works of charity we really can do to those we know). A great many people do now seem think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious. I don’t think it is. We must, if it so happens, give our lives for others: but even while we’re doing it, I think we’re meant to enjoy Our Lord and, in Him, our friends, our food, our sleep, your jokes, and the birds song and the frosty sunrise.
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C.S. Lewis (The Quotable Lewis)
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What the above examples reveal is not a man prone to the faux pas, but a gentlemanβ€”strictly defined, by Hitchens, as β€œsomeone who is never rude except on purpose.” A spectacular instance of his gentlemanliness occurred during an appearance on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher. Unlike most guests, Hitchens did not try to flatter or pacify the audience. Instead, after being booed and jeered for pointing out the horrors of a nuclear Iran, he raised his middle finger and pointed it at them, while intoning, β€œFuck you! Fuck you!” What this little episode demonstrated was not only his indifference to crowd opinionβ€”impressive in itselfβ€”but also his binary nature: He has a large mind and a big mouthβ€”neither of which ever seems to be closed. Whereas
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Windsor Mann (The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism -- The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens)
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Your life is not an episode of Skins. Things will never look quite as good as they do in a faded, sun-drenched Polaroid; your days are not an editorial from Lula. Your life is not a Sofia Coppola movie, or a Chuck Palahniuk novel, or a Charles Bukowski poem. Grace Coddington isn’t your creative director. Bon Iver and Joy Division don’t play softly in the background at appropriate moments. Your hysterical teenage diary isn’t a work of art. Your room probably isn’t Selby material. Your life isn’t a Tumblr screencap. Every word that comes out of your mouth will not be beautiful and poignant, infinitely quotable. Your pain will not be pretty. Crying till you vomit is always shit. You cannot romanticize hurt. Or sadness. Or loneliness. You will have homework, and hangovers and bad hair days. The train being late won’t lead to any fateful encounters, it will make you late. Sometimes your work will suck. Sometimes you will suck. Far too often, everything will suck - and not in a Wes Anderson kind of way. And there is no divine consolation - only the knowledge that we will hopefully experience the full spectrum - and that sometimes, just sometimes, life will feel like a Coppola film.
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