Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
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There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from them and will do anything to prevent that.
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If you're an average married couple, you're going to lie to your spouse in one out of every 10 interactions. Now, you may think that's bad. If you're unmarried, that number drops to three.
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I always look for my mistakes so I can correct them in the future.
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Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
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Animals are not just herbivores or carnivores. They are, in the nice coinage of the psychologist George Miller, informavores.
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Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires?
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The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer.
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I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long
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If we're born in God's image, then God knows how we can fuck up. And he knows that you really didn't mean it.
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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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If I worked as a waiter, I'd go home and write songs and record them. I'd have to. It's the only thing I know how to do. It's the only thing I can do.
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The taxpayers deserve accountability.
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Israel is one of the easiest places to play ball. When I say easy I am referring to the easy lifestyle an athlete has while in Israel. It's very easy to get around the country, because it's so small.
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Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.
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Neutrality is for referees in a football game. You have to take a stand. The really, really good journalists always take a stand with those who have no power, with those who have no rights, and with those who have no voice.
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The worst thing any decorator can do is give a client the feeling that he's walking around somebody else's house; the rooms must belong to the owner, not to the decorator; and no rooms can have atmosphere unless they are used and lived in.
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Best and brightest, come away!
