Yasser Arafat Quotes
[Adolf] Hitler succeeded once upon a time to conquer all the big powers within two or three years and occupied all Europe, North Africa, and arrived at the gates of Moscow. This is not the real power. Real power is something completely different.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.
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I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.
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Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
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I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back. When you don't enjoy it, that's the time to pack it in.
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I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
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Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.
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I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
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My parents tolerated me reading comics because they knew I was also reading 'proper' books, too.
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Playing smart was a big emphasis this week, ... and we still had a number of penalties. That's still a real concern.
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A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.
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Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.
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Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What psychedelics are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high or different awareness. They are the exact opposite of drugs. They promote questioning , they promote consciousness, they promote value examinations, they promote the reconstruction of behavioral patterns.
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[Adolf] Hitler succeeded once upon a time to conquer all the big powers within two or three years and occupied all Europe, North Africa, and arrived at the gates of Moscow. This is not the real power. Real power is something completely different.
