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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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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Even when it comes to zippers and buttons, Italy reigns supreme. The luxury market is ours, as demonstrated by the voracity with which various foreign conglomerates are buying up the jewels of our manufacturing sector.
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One of the things I liked about the movie 'Minority Report' was they used a lot of futurists as consultants to really try to understand what the world really would be like in 50 years.
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I grew up in an era when money was not readily available. We were into the post-Depression years and World War II.
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It's a strange thing, you have said it thousands of times I am sure...you will never know what you can do until you try. However the sad truth is, that most people never try anything until they know they can do it.
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So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.
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As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.
