Dante Alighieri Quotes
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By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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I think that liberals need to grow up.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.
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I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'
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I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more.
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Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don't have a foundation, the roof isn't going to stand.
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One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.
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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.
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Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.
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Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.
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If the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.
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Dull witted brooding people love to stuff themselves with quantities of heavy food, just like animals for fattening. Bubbly intellectual people love foods which stimulate the taste buds without overloading the belly. Profound, meditative people prefer neutral foods which do not have an assertive flavor and are not difficult to digest, and therefore do not demand too much attention.
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Often a retrospect delights the mind.
