Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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Judge: Do you want Mr. Bryan sworn?
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How many reality shows can you watch? They're so obviously phony.
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My priorities were taking the kids to school and being a mum and being a daughter and being a sister. Just spending a lot of that time with my family that I'd probably lost a lot of, touring with the Cranberries.
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But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.
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Facebook is who you used to know; Twitter is who you want to know and things you want to know more about.
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I always approach every play based on the cast. When Denzel and I did 'Fences,' I didn't go to rehearsals and say, 'OK, James Earl Jones did a wonderful job in '87. Let me see if you can come close to James Earl Jones.'
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I find it is increasingly difficult to spend the time I need with my family and at the same time do the job that needs to be done.
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I'm never going to say anything about who I'm dating unless I'm married or engaged.
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Specialization in this world is rudimentary and self-sufficiency characterizes most individual households
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I wouldn't call the Prime Minister gutless. That's all that's left of him.
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There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all.
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A change of heart leads to change in behavior, and a change in behavior leads to changing the world.
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What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly? ... wearying himself with climbing upon every ascent, ... bruising himself with continual falls, and at last breaking his neck? And all this, from an imagination that it would be glorious to have the eyes of people looking up at him, and mighty happy to eat, and drink, and sleep, at the top of the highest trees in the kingdom.
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Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will be without a sense of shame. Lead them with excellence and put them in their place through roles and ritual practices, and in addition to developing a sense of shame, they will order themselves harmoniously.
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Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.
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When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers.
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Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.
