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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If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
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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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We shall confine this brief study of the Old Testament to the prophets, because they are the beating heart of the Old Testament.
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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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Games is like hardwired plumbing in the house of pop. It's not pop itself, its sort of like the behind-the-scenes arteries and capillaries of pop music.
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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A testimony of the truth of the gospel does not come the same way to all people. Some receive it in a unique, life-changing experience. Others gain a testimony slowly, almost imperceptibly until, one day, they simply know.
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
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Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.
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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.
