Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.
Karen DeCrow
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
Dale Earnhardt
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We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.
Yitzhak Shamir
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I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
Walter Kirn
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These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
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There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.
Ze Frank
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The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.
Camille Paglia
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As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.
Edward Bond
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People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Bertrand Russell
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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at.
Henry David Thoreau
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I do not need your loving words or hurried kiss as night comes down in the place where we once lived innocent as children, and happier.
Anna Akhmatova
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Once we were very different - our psyches constantly at war - so we struck a bargain, a spiritual compromise. We would grow more like each other, there would be a balance, but a bargain with a demon is no bargain at all. Demons cheat; it is their nature. Oh yes, I have grown more like Etrigan, and he… he too has grown more like Etrigan.
Alan Moore
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It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.
Vijay Mallya
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I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.
Hanif Kureishi
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My wife and I had an argument last week that was so stupid, it bears repeating. My wife collects twist ties. Welcome to my world.
Bill Engvall
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When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice, the people will rise up & express their anger & frustration if you refuse to hear their cries. A riot is the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.
Ahad Ha'am
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Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle
