Moliere Quotes
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.
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Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.
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There are not 'many sides' in the fight against hatred and bigotry. There is only right and wrong.
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Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.
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We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.
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Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked 'What's the big idea?' knows, most big ideas are bad ones.
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No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes.
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Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.
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It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.
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They already feel a certain amount of responsibility for what happened to them.
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One would think America big enough to set aside wilderness preserves for the many of our citizens who seek to escape the incessant crowd, to search for solace in solitude amidst a sanctuary far removed from the banality of beer ads and cigarette commercials.
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I want in all cases to do right.
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The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.
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Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.
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I wanted to counter apathy and blandness. I wanted to shock homogenized minds with the experience of writing at high voltage. I wanted the press to assert relentlessly literature's importance. I wanted the press to be a national press and of national importance.
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The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.
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Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.
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Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.
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But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
