Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
Quotes to Explore
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I have an appetite to always learn.
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I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.
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The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods.
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Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
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To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.
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I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for books I might enjoy.
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I read about two young ladies that went to Parsons, and when they graduated Elizabeth Taylor opened a store for them in Paris and I thought okay-that's all I have to do!
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I always knew I wanted to be in films but didn't want anyone to taunt my parents. So I excelled in studies. I was a topper in school and college, so when I decided to become a model, people said, 'Oh your daughter is modeling,' so at least my parents could say, 'Yeah but she also came first in class.'
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Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages.
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Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
