Dante Alighieri Quotes
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Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
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You can no longer just have a magazine that shows you this glossy impervious image of women - in the studio, artificial, wearing a push-up bra.
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You can eff off, too," I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.
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Just breathe. Sometimes you're only a few breaths away from feeling better.
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While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.
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There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.
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None but blockheads copy each other.
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What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
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I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.
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Thinking about dark and troublesome things, wondering when they'll come to pay you a visit, turns out to be the very best way to call them to your side.
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Everybody has some good in them and they can be relied on.
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Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by power and by force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag.
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The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.
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The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
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As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.
