Alexander Suvorov Quotes
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
Garet Garrett
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The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.
Imre Kertesz
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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
Barry Manilow
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It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing.
Karin Slaughter
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I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.
J. R. Celski
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.
Mao Zedong
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...'progress', in poetry at least, comes not so much from digesting the last age as from rejecting it altogether (or, rather, from eating a little and leaving a lot), and...the world’s dialectic is a sort of neo-Hegelian one in which one progresses not by resolving contradictions but by ignoring them.
Randall Jarrell
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Oh, Night will not see thirty again, Yet soft her wing, Miranda; Pick up your glass and tell me, then - How old is Spring, Miranda?
Ogden Nash
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They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem,Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
Oliver Goldsmith
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I have an ego the size of a small planet, but I'm not _always_ right ....
Linus Torvalds
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I feel I am privileged to express a hope. The hope is this: that we shall have peace throughout the world: that we shall abolish wars, and settle all international differences at the conference table: that we shall abolish all atom and hydrogen bombs, before they abolish us first.
Charlie Chaplin
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The fantasy genre is so in at the moment. Viewers want to escape from their lives and watch something that is so separate from their everyday existence. People have always wanted to escape their lives - that's why they go to movies and the theatre.
Colin Morgan
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We have allowed a situation to develop in which it is legal for a multibillion dollar industry to own, wholly and in perpetuity, the intimate and personal details of children.
Beeban Kidron
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We try to create a situation where we're the casino. It's like how an actuary would set insurance rates. Predictability, predictability, predictability. What's the path to least risk? What's the greater chance of getting some return on this asset?
Billy Beane
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There's not a moment on it that will sound too familiar, as soon as it sounds comfortably familiar then we like to do something with it to take away that comfortable feeling.
Peter William Brockbanks
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I left school my senior year to do a play at the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas. Then while I was doing a play, I auditioned for Juilliard. I got in over the summer, and they told me, 'You have to graduate high school to come here. You don't need the SATs, but you do need to graduate high school.' I finished over the summer through correspondence.
Lee Pace
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I ain't never called nobody no redskin. I've never been mad, like, 'Get out of this restaurant, you redskin.'
Kevin Hart
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Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore.
Jeff Daniels
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All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been given to humanity by men who, when the hour came, turned from tap water to something with color in it, and more in it than mere oxygen and hydrogen.
H. L. Mencken
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We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.
T. S. Eliot
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A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.
Pablo Neruda
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One cannot think that blind bravery gives victory over the enemy.
Alexander Suvorov
