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The so-called oligarchs have always had less influence than conventional wisdom attributed to them.
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
Victoria Principal
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Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
Walter Anderson
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
Frances O'Grady
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My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
Rafael Palmeiro
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
A. R. Ammons
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On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.
Warren Spector
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Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.
Yann Martel
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Pompeii is an extraordinary place to be because it was preserved exactly as it was. There are many other sites. If you visit any other antiquity-type sites throughout the world, they're very damaged with what's gone on over the centuries since they were abandoned. But this one was just, like, sealed, so you're looking at rock surfaces and the carving of letters and names in the stones looks like it was done yesterday.
David Gilmour
Pink Floyd
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Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.
Paul Mellon
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The so-called oligarchs have always had less influence than conventional wisdom attributed to them.
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