Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
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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 believe on the issue of immigration, you have to deal with it sensibly.
Mark Rutte
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Now we have so many different genres of music, it's amazing to me. Even in the gospel music arena, you've got hip-hop, you got contemporary, urban contemporary, you got traditional, you got neo-soul gospel, you've got all of these different things.
Marvin Sapp
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Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.
Jeffrey Kluger
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I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you're working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.
Carol Windley
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Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the United States.
David Axelrod
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It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
Jim Bishop
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When you get money you're always a target because there's always somebody who needs money out there.
Christopher Charles Lloyd
