R.D. Blackmore Quotes
'Curio vult advisari,' as the lawyers say; which means, 'Let us have another glass, and then we can think about it.'
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.
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I have always loathed working out.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
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We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.
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The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
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Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.
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I don't do things that are illegal.
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We all have our own little thing, I think.
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I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.
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I have always taken care of my body; I'm not a drinker, I've never smoked. And I've always exercised. That's all you have to do.
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I don't think it's hypothetical whether or not it's a good idea to topple secular dictators in the Middle East and hope to get a good outcome and hope that stability comes thereafter.
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Alike and Equal are not the same.
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One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.
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This is, therefore, the intensest rendezvous. It is in that thought that we collect ourselves, Out of all the indifferences, into one thing
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American television is popular everywhere and its what I grew up on.
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A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia.
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In my stand-up, I generally improvise from an outline.
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Who can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind? Who knows why certain notes in music are capable of stirring the listener deeply, though the same notes slightly rearranged are impotent? These are high mysteries, and this chapter is a mystery story, thinly disguised.
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It is asserted that the dogs keep running when they drink at the Nile, for fear of becoming a prey to the voracity of the crocodile.
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She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling.
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'Curio vult advisari,' as the lawyers say; which means, 'Let us have another glass, and then we can think about it.'
