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The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.

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• When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Look
  • Civilization
  • Pool

• I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • World
  • India
  • Coming

• The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Name
  • Will
  • Redskins

• Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are spurring growth and helping businesses hire new workers while providing American families with job security.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Job
  • American
  • Growth

• I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Love
  • Model
  • For Him

• 'Doctor Who' is where my love of science fiction and fantasy started. I was introduced to it when I was 8, and I'm still an avid viewer.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Love
  • Science
  • Doctor

• Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Men
  • Children

• I just don't stop working.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Stop
  • Working
  • Just

• At the end of the day, tech workers are not robots: they feel, they think, they have values.

  

  Ed Lee
  • Day
  • End
  • Values

• The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Believe
  • May
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• Most men of business think 'Anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is likely to go on still.'

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of common and commonplace things; hidden and yet burning and glowing continually if you care to look with purged eyes.

  

  Arthur Machen
  • Eyes

• It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like. I'm black, so I'm supposed to think a certain way? I'm supposed to have certain opinions? I don't do that. You don't create a box and put people in and then make a lot of generalizations about them.

  

  Clarence Thomas
  • People
  • Black

• Quite recently, to his horror, he had realized he would have to get a job. He was therefore studying to become a barrister, in the hope that he would find some pleasure in keeping as many criminals as possible at large.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Job
  • Hope

• In New York, the theater is a destination point. In Los Angeles, no matter how provocative, how successful, how star-studded the theater event may be, it is, at best, a second-class citizen.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • May
  • Star

• I work out, but I'm not doing it specifically because I show my butt on TV.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Work

• My parents have always had pretty high expectations, but they're very supportive.

  

  Lauren Cohan
  • High
  • Pretty
  • Parents

• Speed is one of the great curses of modern civilization, obsession with speed leads to quantitative approach; we come to believe that more is better. This is very materialistic, we have to realize that it is the quality of life, quality of relationships, quality of food, medicine, education and everything else which matters.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • Believe
  • Quality
  • Realizing

• The question, 'What is the purpose thereof?' cannot be asked about anything which is not the product of an agent; therefore we cannot ask what is the purpose of the existence of God.

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Question
  • Purpose

• VW has held a beloved place in American culture. When I graduated from college, many of my friends drove across the country, and most hit the road in a VW van or Bug. Through the years, these cars have represented youth, freedom and quirkiness.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Country
  • Friends
  • American

• The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • Style
  • English

• Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.

  

  Vladimir Kramnik
  • Brain
  • Training
  • Chess

• The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
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