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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ~Jorge Luis Borges
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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proverbiosI am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. ~Camille Paglia
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The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. ~Ayn Rand
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Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed. ~William Faulkner
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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I have never seen a homeless guy with a bottle of Gatorade. ~George Carlin
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For me, prose walks, poetry dances. ~James Broughton
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It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player. ~Anna Kournikova
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If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. ~Arthur Ashe
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes. ~Nguyen Cao Ky
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There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio; I don't know that guy. ~Bill Burr
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I am "too fiery," yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. ~Margaret Fuller
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I have noticed that people tend to stop maturing when they start self-medicating. Everyone has very tough seasons of life, but by persevering through them we have an opportunity to mature and grow as people. Those who self-medicate, often thwart maturity as they escape the tough seasons of life rather than face them. ~Mark Driscoll
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future. ~Mason Cooley
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work. ~Christophe Beck
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To be a team, you must be a family. ~Don Meyer
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Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought. ~Dennis Bergkamp
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I dream about people who do not need to have sex to know they love each other. ~Carol Rifka Brunt
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. ~Michele Bachmann
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