Maxim Gorky Quotes
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
Foster Friess
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A 2014 survey found that 74% of law-enforcement agencies reported antigovernment extremism as one of the top terrorist threats. Just 3% of those agencies viewed the threat from Muslim extremists as severe.
Ibrahim Hooper
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
Nathan Lane
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
Nawal El Saadawi
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
Vik Muniz
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Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.
Nancy Gibbs
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
J. Cole
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After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.
Valerie Bertinelli
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
T. S. Eliot
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I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.
Zach Johnson The Fray
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Wallace Stevens
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The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
Mal Peet
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
Olivia Munn
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Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.
Victor Garber
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
Walter Pater
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Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
Earl Butz
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We're into Nicole Kidmans, rather than the young girl who just got married in a tracksuit.
Bruce Oldfield
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One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
Vance McAllister
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
Ralph Ellison
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I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.
Janet Street-Porter
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In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere.
Maxim Gorky