Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
Owen Arthur
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I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
Ian Anderson
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
Nathalie Sarraute
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When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
Carla Gugino
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
Camilla Belle
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
Farnaz Fassihi
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
Imran Khan
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Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.
Ban Ki-moon
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Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.
Virginia Woolf
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The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.
Rollo May
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Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.
Fyodor Dostoevsky