Victor Hugo Quotes
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I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
Earle Combs
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India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
Vince Cable
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
G. Willow Wilson
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I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
Ian Anderson
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I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you can in straight-up documentary journalism.
Jamie Johnson
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Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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A lady once asked him how he came to define 'pastern', the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, 'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.'
Samuel Johnson
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The Bank had never used the word 'corruption' at all until I got there, and the reason for that was, as the general counsel pointed out to me, that quite a number of our shareholders represented were not immune from corruption in their governments.
James Wolfensohn
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When I was a nurse I never had much money, and I was still happy then.
Jo Brand
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Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
Victor Hugo
