Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples.
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You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.
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Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.
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Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.
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We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House.
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Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.
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All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.
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We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.
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The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing.
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Cats are only human, they have their faults.
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So we're going to keep getting mega-hits like this?" Tomas's dark brown eyes sparkled as they landed on Sienna's down-bent head. "Not that I don't appreciate it, sugar, but it did make me 'hyper,' according to my mother.
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It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.
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Learn from the experts. Study successful men and women and do what they do and you'll be successful too.
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I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.
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Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.
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When it becomes economically possible, building will become montage.
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I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.
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Given the rest of the economic news, including the fact that GDP growth is positive, inflation is still low, jobless claims are still moving downward and temporary services are firming up, that means the recovery continues, and we hope it will continue in a more robust fashion.
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It is a curse, being blessed with so much to offer.
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Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
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The issue is not whether there are horrible cases where the penalty seems "right". The real question is whether we will ever design a capital system that reaches only the "right" cases, without dragging in the wrong cases, cases of innocence or cases where death is not proportionate punishment. Slowly, even reluctantly, I have realized the answer to that question is no- we will never get it right.
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...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples.
