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Enlightenment should be a human right.

B. W. Powe

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• Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Thought
  • Loved
  • Brazil

• I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.

  

  J Mascis
  • Couple
  • Gold
  • Year

• Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Stop

• If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Women
  • Done
  • Bridges

• If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Live
  • Age
  • Innocence

• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
  • God
  • Men
  • Power

• Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office, typing on your own.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Nature

• They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.

  

  Ed Asner
  • People
  • Credit
  • Sheep

• Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Thoughts

• Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Air

• Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?

  

  Karl Marx
  • Good
  • Petty

• It is a fact that Mussolini entered the scene of world politics as an ally of the democracies, while Lenin entered it as a virtual ally of imperial Germany.

  

  Ludwig von Mises
  • World

• In my sights I carve himlike a sculptor. I mold outhis last look at everyone.I carry his eyes and hisbrain bone at every position.I know his male sex and I domarch over him with my index finger.His mouth and his anus are one.I am at the center of feeling.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Feeling
  • Eyes
  • Sex

• Filtering can be a very good thing when it comes to human relationships and familial harmony. Yeah, filtering is often an absolute necessity.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Good

• Giving blood, or being near a needle, is the absolute worst.

  

  Lauren Cohan
  • Giving

• The next day the two sisters went to the ball, and so did Cinderella, but dressed more magnificently than before. The King's son was always by her side, and his pretty speeches to her never ceased.

  

  Charles Perrault
  • Pretty
  • Son
  • King

• The black experience for me has been very interesting. Some days, I wake up, and I feel really black. Some days, I'm like, 'This is me. I'm black. Black Lives Matter. Black pride. Look at my cocoa skin.' I just feel it's my being.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Black

• I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.

  

  William Golding
  • Kind
  • Fantasy
  • Remarkable

• The consolidation of the budget is, of course, the premise for all further political measures. We want to achieve the Maastricht criteria by 2007.

  

  Edmund Stoiber
  • Achieve
  • Measure
  • Budget

• I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Enlightenment
  • Degrees
  • Civilisation

• I am a cancer survivor…. Cancer is like enlightenment at gunpoint. One must face it and do something.

  

  Anna Halprin
  • Cancer
  • Enlightenment
  • Survivor

• Enlightenment should be a human right.

  

  B. W. Powe
  • Enlightenment