Victor Hugo Quotes
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials.
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I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt.
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The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.
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I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.
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"Homicide: Life on the Street" is the best material I've had the chance to do.
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It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.
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The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.
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Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy -- love which creates life?
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I warn't never meant to be a lady, I know that now. I got streaks of wildness in me that trip me up every time, and just like streaks in clothes, there's some dirt that just won't wash out.
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If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy irreverence, it remains a disgusting slough, where each one of us goes so thoroughly disguised in dirt that we are all alike and indistinguishab
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The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.
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Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.
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Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned.
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History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.
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But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.
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You need to release yourself of any expectation of what that material should be. Just start letting it be what it's naturally evolving into, even if it means just pulling words out of the dictionary and laying them one after another. Words are everywhere.
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For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.
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I'd just like to say "thank you" to President Bush and to the men and women of the US military, who by the New York Times' own admission took out a terror-sponsoring regime in Iraq that could have constructed a nuclear weapon within months, as soon as sanctions were lifted enough for them to obtain sufficient fissile material.
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I'd like to wrestle for as long as I can.
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See, then, how powerful religion is; it commands the heart, it commands the vitals. Morality - that comes with a pruning - knife, and cuts off all sproutings, all wild luxuriances; but religion lays the axe to the root of the tree. Morality looks that the skin of the apple be fair; but religion searcheth to the very core.
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I sleep for about four hours a night, or day really. I go to bed at, like, 9 A.M., sleep for four hours, then get up and start the day again. I don't mind if that's not healthy.
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Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.
