Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
Ferdinand Marcos
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
Mao Zedong
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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
Ralph Ellison
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.
Nancy Gibbs
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I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
R. Kelly
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It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.
LeBron James
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If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.
Blaise Pascal
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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
Rene Descartes
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Inasmuch as our country is extensive and new, and the countries of Europe are densely populated, if there are any abroad who desire to make this the land of their adoption, it is not in my heart to throw aught in their way, to prevent them from coming to the United States.
Abraham Lincoln
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If this [the Mysterium cosmographicum] is published, others will perhaps make discoveries I might have reserved for myself. But we are all ephemeral creatures (and none more so than I). I have, therefore, for the Glory of God, who wants to be recognized from the book of Nature, that these things may be published as quickly as possible. The more others build on my work the happier I shall be.
Johannes Kepler
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I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.
Vladimir Nabokov
