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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Lose your inhibitions about drawing and just do it.
Chris Riddell
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He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian church would require they walk away from their traditions to fit into the Gentile culture. We must face these past wrongs.
Bill McCartney
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I haven't taken any new projects in the past years - I told myself, if I cannot live long enough to finish it, I don't want it.
I. M. Pei
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Saddam Hussein was a bad guy. Right? He was a bad guy, really bad guy. But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good. They didn't read them the rights - they didn't talk, they were a terrorist, it was over. Today, Iraq is Harvard for terrorism. You want to be a terrorist, you go to Iraq. It's like Harvard. Okay?
Donald Trump
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I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.
Vladimir Nabokov
