Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
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It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.
Yakov Smirnoff
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Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.
Immanuel Kant
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Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The Admiral ordered the lord to be given some things, and he and all his folk rested in great contentment, believing truly that they had come from the sky, and to see the Christians they held themselves very fortunate.
Christopher Columbus
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My family's a ruling family.
Aminatta Forna
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Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.
Martin Lel
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I can definitely box on the front foot as well as the back foot. I don't think that's really an issue.
Katie Taylor
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I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'
David Mamet
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I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.
Jay McShann
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I'm a New Yorker now, and believe me, there's no comparison between the Big Apple and Kalamazoo, no similarity at all. New York City's hectic, always in fast-forward, and Kalamazoo's more laid-back, smaller, slower.
Derek Jeter
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I love when people have their own creative vision, when a person stands out and tries different things.
Ciara
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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
Hector Hugh Munro
