Franz Kafka Quotes
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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The special thing about 'Lost Girl' is it can be campy at times, but the show doesn't take itself too seriously, which is what separates it from other sci-fi TV shows. I love that.
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Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.
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I actually like pole dancing! It gives you so much confidence. I never thought I'd do it, but now I'm really into it.
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It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.
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I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?
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YouTube is a problem. It has very big traffic, but it refuses to contribute to the weight of that traffic.
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The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got.
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Today war seems to have undergone a change of meaning, insofar as it is not a war of religion but a war of interests, not a war of conflicting cultures or civilizations but a war of national areas, not a war of human beings but a technical struggle of machines one against another and all against the non–combatant population.
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Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.
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In Barnette, we held that a public school student could not be compelled to recite the Pledge; we did not even hint that she could not be compelled to observe respectful silence. . . . Logically, that ought to be the next target for the Court's bulldozer.
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You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.
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'Tout de même,' said Poirot, 'since I cannot find anything, eh bien, then the logic falls out of the window.'
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My pet peeve is when people come over to my house, and there are coasters, but they don't use a coaster.
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Fine worries, like fine wines, are at their best only after they have been properly mellowed.
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I really enjoy playing a sex symbol, but it's not something I feel in real life. I'm much more of a natural girl at home.
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Technology improves our lives in so many ways - from our toasters, ovens, and refrigerators at home to our computers, fax machines, and BlackBerrys at work. Technology makes once-burdensome tasks easy and fun.
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One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
