Doris Lessing Quotes
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It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
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The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
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I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.
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I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.
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The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
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It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.
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For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.
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Alike and Equal are not the same.
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The number of saints in scores, Valiant men, golden their party. Before kings a career of praise, Warriors, no one was before them in demanding. In straits, in expanse, in every need, May they be a city to our body and our soul!
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The teenage female has less demand to perform and more resources to attract love. Her body and mind are more genetic gifts.
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Wer nichts wagt, gerwinnt nichts. Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß,Wer nie die kummervollen NächteAuf seinem Bette weinend saß,Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Mächte.
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We need to be thinking about: How do we allow people to ascend the ladder of opportunity, rather than how do we give them everything and keep them dependent.
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It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.
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What, after all, was the point of civilization if not the well-being of citizens?
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Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.
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I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.
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Anything can happen at Pipeline; it's one of those waves where the most amazing wave can come through in one minute, and then nothing can happen for an hour.
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Sacred Infant, all divine, What a tender love was Thine, Thus to come from highest bliss Down to such a world as this.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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The depiction of Africa has changed in the media in that it is not always poverty, disease, and so on.
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As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.
