Jeremy Bentham Quotes
Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.
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That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matter how old you are - and I am pretty up there in terms of numbers - I think you should do whatever makes you happy.
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I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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Paris is an unsolved puzzle. She inspires me in a way that other places don't. And she demands more of me. Just try to write about her without bumping into cliche after cliche.
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I love New York.
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I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
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In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.
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It's nice not to have to live a double life.
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I moved back to Idaho when I was 6 or 7 and then lived in a little town called Twin Falls and then moved to Boise. So quite different from L.A. I'd been to Disneyland a couple of times, and that was the closest I'd been to L.A.
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This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.
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Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
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But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.
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Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
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Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.
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Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.
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But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.
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One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations.
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I scan the room. Catherine is writing quickly, her light brown hair falling over her face. She is left-handed, and because she writes in pencil her left arm is silver from wrist to elbow.
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The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.
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Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.
