John Milton Quotes
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Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov -
Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
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I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.
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Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.
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It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
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I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.
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I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?
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Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.
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That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.
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When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.
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There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
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Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
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I don't believe that we should limit waterboarding - or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique - if it means saving Americans' lives.
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
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Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.
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Forever, we all had a real clear understanding of what Parcells' teams looked like and played like: tough as hell and didn't beat themselves.
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We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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The thing we don't want to do is overstate the benefits, but there is all kinds of proof that exercise, both physical and mental, increases brain activity.
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The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.
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What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?
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A chief justice's authority is really quite limited, and the dynamic among all the justices is going to affect whether he can accomplish much or not. There is this convention of referring to the Taney Court, the Marshall Court, the Fuller Court, but a chief justice has the same vote that everyone else has.
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Someone once defined a social problem as a situation in which the real world differs from the theories of intellectuals. To the intelligentsia, it follows, as the night follows the day, that it is the real world that is wrong and which needs to change.
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Hell has no benefits, only torture.
