Alec Douglas-Home Quotes
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
Samuel Johnson
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Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it’s simply meaningless. We don’t live in order to die, we live in order to live.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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If Virtue & Knowledge are diffus'd among the People, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great Security.
Samuel Adams
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
Walter Benjamin
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To the last moment of his breathOn hope the wretch relies;And e'en the pang preceding deathBids expectation rise.
Oliver Goldsmith
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He puts his bones back on,Turning the clock back an hour.She knows flesh, that skin balloon,the unbound limbs, the boards,the roof, the removable roof.She is his selection, part time.You know the story too! Look,when it is over he places her,like a phone, back on the hook.
Anne Sexton
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It's not rubbish to say that I was a bit peeved about not getting credit for a couple of songs, but that wasn't the whole reason. I guess I just felt like I had enough. I decided to leave and start a group with Jack Bruce...
Mick Taylor
The Rolling Stones
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The joy and happiness it gives you or the emotions you go through when you hold your child in your arms for the first time are indescribable! I really thought that there was going be this moment when a ray of light from heaven would come pouring in, background music would start playing with angels singing, but none of that happens!
Abhishek Bachchan
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The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late '80s.
Neil Tennant
Pet Shop Boys
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The spirits, they intoxicate me. I watched them infiltrate my soul. They try to say it's too late for me. Once I was promised absolution, there's only one solution for my sins. And I blame this world, for making a good man evil. Now I ain't getting into heaven, if the devil has his way.
Jon Bon Jovi
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What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots.
Dennis Quaid
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Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.
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