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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man? ~Oriana Fallaci
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Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive. ~Kakha Bendukidze
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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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Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result. ~Lyle Lovett
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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proverbiosIn Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma. ~Greg Boyle
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Sorrow is brief but joy is endless ~Friedrich Schiller
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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Love's in need of love today, don't delay; send yours in right away. ~Stevie Wonder
#quotes #stevie-wonder #love #peace
No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. ~Martin Amis
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I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy. ~Naveen Jain
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size. ~Kurdish Proverb
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. ~Richard Dawkins
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
#quotes #robert-breault #art #critic
In my humble opinion, change is stupid. ~Rafael Nadal
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Everything that happens is meant to be. It is meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that it is meant to be disaster. ~Tony Kaye
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