Ernest Hemingway Quotes
Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
Ernest Hemingway
Quotes to Explore
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
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I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.
Pamela Anderson
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
Patrick Macnee
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
Nancy Pelosi
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I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
Ian Mcewan
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An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.
Rachel Cusk
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The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow from it ; and by observing how these differ from the real phenomena, we learn what corrections to make in our assumption.
John Stuart Mill
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Americans are quite skeptical about the goal of promoting democracy. People feel it's a desirable goal, but, from a commonsense point of view, both Republicans and Democrats have come to the conclusion that democracy is something that countries can only come to on their own.
Daniel Yankelovich
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On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.
K. Eric Drexler
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To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.
Plato
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War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
Ernest Hemingway
