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I'm a big skeptic so I won't just go off what an individual may tell me. I gotta do the research. I'ma get different literature on that one subject and just compare and contrast. I do my own selective studies.
Kevin Gates
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Samskrit has moulded the minds of our people to the extent to which they themselves are not conscious. Samskrit literature is national in one sense, but its purpose has been universal. That was why it commanded the attention of people who were not followers of a particular culture.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
Edward R. Murrow
The velocity of communication is astonishing to observe. It is equally true that swiftness can augment the dispersal of misinformation.
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The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.
Sandra Cisneros
The allure of literature is that it permits readers to experience life from alternate perspectives. All great books accomplish this.
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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
Miguel de Cervantes
Entreat, observe more closely, sir... those objects in the distance are not monsters, but wind turbines.
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No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
Edward R. Murrow
No individual can instill fear in an entire population, unless we all are his abettors.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
Marcel Proust
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I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
Marquis de Sade
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Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.
Christian Louboutin
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It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.
Hesiod
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Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.
Edwin Louis Cole
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A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.
Julia Alvarez
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It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.
Gustave Flaubert
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Carl Sandburg
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Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.
Carl Sandburg
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
Marcel Proust
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.
Mason Cooley
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If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.
Andrew Denton
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Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
Aldous Huxley
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This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.
Dan Rather
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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
Gustave Flaubert
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Honore de Balzac
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Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
Bryant H. McGill
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One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.
Harold Pinter
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Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Ernest Hemingway
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
Fran Lebowitz
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Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.
Marilyn vos Savant
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The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
George Eliot
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Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
Kin Hubbard
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The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
Napoleon Hill
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
Ezra Pound
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Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
Charles Dickens
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The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
Anton Chekhov
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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
J. K. Rowling
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The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
Lafcadio Hearn
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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
Karl Kraus
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The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.
Chris Matthews
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Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.
Edward Dahlberg
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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.
Jared Diamond
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Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.
Jessica Savitch
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
Lord Byron
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There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.
Neil Gaiman
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This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.
Natan Sharansky
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The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques.
Martin Bashir