Henry Kissinger Quotes
Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.
Quotes to Explore
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There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.
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I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
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Managing to tell a story is very gratifying.
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Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
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I'm the one who started redevelopment in South Los Angeles, not Jan Perry. I did it. I love Jan. She's a good person, and she did a wonderful job with what she did downtown, but in L.A., South L.A., I'm the one.
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When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.
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Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny.
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If I'm honest with myself, I think it's probably true I have learned more in my life through pain than through joy. But hopefully that's changing.
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So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional for rhetorical effect and sometimes it's the way people chose to write at the time. Inerrancy isn't interested in any of those kinds of things.
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Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.
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All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.
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Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.
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What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?
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Look tonight at the stars. Let them overwhelm you in the postures of their bright dance. Face the vastness which they dot like silver bees, and sound with your own brain the mystery, hazarding at the inscrutable plan of things.
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The Law and the Lawgiver are one.
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Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?
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Romance is an illusion. Well, romance is not a complete illusion, but it's ephemeral. It does not last.
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There's nothing to fear but fear itself. It's an illusion of fear. Fear is an illusion. If you gonna die, you gonna die anyway; it's not something to fear, fear is not gonna help.
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I have seen businesses and government come together to provide women entrepreneurs with the training they need to better access markets, take advantage of trade agreements, and in the process grow businesses, jobs, and GDP. These are partnerships that transform lives.
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Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.
