Ignazio Silone Quotes
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Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow.
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I will keep painting until I die.
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However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.
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I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.
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Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
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I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.
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Mercury is a potent toxin that interferes with the human nervous system. Reducing this hazard will be a major public health breakthrough.
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Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.
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The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.
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My body will never go back to what it was, and I wouldn't expect it to after three babies.
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Where liberals see as an ever-more-splendid diversity of colors, creeds, ethnicities, ideologies, beliefs and lifestyles, the Right sees the disintegration of a country, a nation, a people, and its replacement with a Tower of Babel. Visions in conflict that democracy cannot reconcile.
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I would do anything and I will continue to do anything I can to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare.
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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
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When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.
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Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.
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Maybe Trump himself will be voted out through impeachment, right?
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Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
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Horrible things can happen to you, and horrible things happened to us on September 11. But if we look for love and happiness and fulfillment, we will find it.
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Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.
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We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.
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I have a list in my mind and in my heart of actors who have been extraordinarily kind, and Hugh Laurie is near the top.
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The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer the river. What we call the headwaters is only a selection from among the innumerable sources which flow together to compose it. At what point in its course does the Mississippi become what the Mississippi means?
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You have to want to have taste. Some people have inherently bad taste. Their problem is really not the bad taste - that can be fixed - but that they don't know they have it!
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The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.
