Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
Orson F. Whitney
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Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
Manuel Puig
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
Bart Chilton
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People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.
Carl Lewis
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There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness - her selfishness, in short - is a reproach to the American way of life.
Erica Jong
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
Florenz Ziegfeld
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Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.
Baruch Spinoza
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We say keep your change, we'll keep our God, our guns, our constitution.
Sarah Palin
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Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
