Al-Maʿarri Quotes
Reason forbade me many things which, Instinctively, my nature was attracted to; And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing, I believe a falsehood or deny the truth.
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I don't need any nicknames.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
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The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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The President has no real plan to address the fiscal challenges arising from the retirement of the baby boom generation, let alone a plan to fix Social Security.
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I'm a believer in paying your dues.
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I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.
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Nothing in life is promised except death.
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My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.
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One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
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A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.
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Anyhow, I arrived, and I did feel pretty weird, actually, as if I’d left something behind. My head or something.
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He got his mean streak from the gutterGot his kindness from God
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The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
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As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.
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Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.
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A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing compromise when compromise is wrong. But he must also be tender. No weapon will breach the armor of a woman's resentment like tenderness.
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Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.
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Reason forbade me many things which, Instinctively, my nature was attracted to; And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing, I believe a falsehood or deny the truth.
