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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Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.
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Among my books, the ones that sell best are for readers between the ages of 8 and 12. According to a study by the Association of American Publishers, the largest area of industry growth in 2014 was in the children and young adult category.
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In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well.
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I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.
