Doris Lessing Quotes
It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
Vikram Seth
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
G-Eazy
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
Uday Kotak
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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I had a moment where I left journalism, and I started getting interested in this issue and writing about it, where I felt there was a right side and a wrong side around a lot of these issues relating to education.
Brown Campbell
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
J. D. Vance
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I don't know how people recognize me.
Laura Prepon
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
Ted Engstrom
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I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
Warren Ellis
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
W. Somerset Maugham
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
Camille Paglia
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
Garrett Clayton
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
Fat Joe
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
Walt Alston
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I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
Garth Davis
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
Randy Pausch
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
Garth Brooks
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I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
Pat Roberts
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
Salman Rushdie
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The European family may well be anything but perfect. But it is the best thing that we have for bringing the countries of Europe around the same table and for forging compromises so that people here can live in peace, freedom, and prosperity.
Jean-Claude Juncker
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I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I want everyone to feel more free, and so I feel really claustrophobic on behalf of lots of people.
Bat for Lashes
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I've seen sharks in the ocean, it hasn't made me get out of the ocean; that's for sure.
Luke Hemsworth
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For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.
William Shakespeare
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It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.
Doris Lessing