Oscar Wilde Quotes
The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which, in the present condition of things, presses so hardly upon almost everybody. In fact, scarcely any one at all escapes.
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
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Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
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It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
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The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition!
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It's hard to believe that unscrupulous people would take advantage of the public's generosity at times like these, but it does happen,
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Not suing others does not mean that others won't sue you.If people are desperate enough to think that they can gain some kind of financial advantage, they'll sue.
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The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which, in the present condition of things, presses so hardly upon almost everybody. In fact, scarcely any one at all escapes.
