Harry Houdini Quotes
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.
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Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.
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This idea of 'laicite' has been weaponized, in a way, to discriminate against people, and this idea of who gets to be French is really complicated and interesting.
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Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.
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If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.
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Probably, violent things I've done when I was younger, was probably the most despicable thing that I've ever done.
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The media can make boxers, controls who makes it big and who doesnt. They can build up fighters or knock them down.
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A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
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What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.
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You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
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O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63:1). We may imagine we want a thousand different things, but God is the one we really long for. His presence brings satisfaction; his absence brings thirst and longing.
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Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares.
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I believe in the resonance and staying power of quiet photographs. These photographs required a certain seeing, but few special techniques, and no tricks. Something though was hard. It was hard being between photographs and not knowing when or how another image would reveal itself.
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Some of my best men are women!
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He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.
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The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.
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Those who believe in ghosts always see them.
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I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.
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I do not believe that ghosts or spirits exist.
