Oscar Wilde Quotes
It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property.
Quotes to Explore
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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I am in agreement with income-tax protesters that the tax, as commonly applied, is unconstitutional, unfair, and immoral.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.
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I've always wanted to create shoes that were positive and happy.
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We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
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Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
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The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.
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I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.
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What Mexicans want and aspire to, is to go there and work temporarily and raise some money and come back home. That's what they want, so nobody's asking for those two, three million Mexicans that are illegally in the United States to become American citizens.
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I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.
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This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.
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The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
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Anyone who has grown up in Delhi knows it's horrible.
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For me, 'Mommy' was about developing very humane characters that would be very credible and endearing and work onscreen.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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Cancer is the ugliest, scariest, most dreaded word in the English language. My credentials for saying so? Head-to-head, firsthand close encounters with different versions of the fiendish devil.
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Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.
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Another discovery which came out of my investigation was the fact that when one gives his or her order to produce a definite result and stands by that order, it seems to have the effect of giving one what might be termed a second sight which enables him or her to see right through ordinary problems. What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when one is in that state of mind in which he or she knows exactly what one wants and is fully determined not to quit until he or she finds it.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
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Bearing in mind I'm not a mental health expert in any way, he seemed fine. He wasn't highly agitated, and didn't seem out of sorts.
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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property.
