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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The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.
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When the chips are down, life forces you to take inventory and reevaluate the people in your life.
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Unlike running on a road or concrete, natural surfaces are more forgiving and offer a more varied terrain, ultimately resulting in less repetitive micro-trauma to bones and joints than running on hard pavement does.
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The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.
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As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.
