Oscar Wilde Quotes
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
Naftali Bennett
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
A. J. Liebling
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
Lance Burton
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I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
Walter Dean Myers
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
Irwin M. Jacobs
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We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
Dallas Willard
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And so, in case we have contingencies and things that we cannot accomplish within the duration of the space walk, we have a buffer, I mean, in order to be able to complete the... what we want to accomplish.
Umberto Guidoni
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
Octavio Paz
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Research shows that if patients believe they are taking the real drug, they are more confident of improving and, so, improve even if they are actually on the placebo. Conversely, if they suspect they are taking the placebo, their expectancy of improvement declines, and so does their improvement.
John Cornwell
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The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.
Marco Tempest
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Oscar Wilde
