J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
Well, the first War of the Machines seems to be drawing to its final inconclusive chapter - leaving, alas, everyone the poorer, many bereaved or maimed and millions dead, and only one thing triumphant: the Machines. As the servants of the Machine are becoming a privileged class, the Machines are going to be enormously more powerful. What's their next move?
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Fran Kranz
We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
Nancy Pelosi
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Barack Obama
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Frances Beinecke
I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
Kate Winslet
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Venus Williams
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
Daniel Barenboim
I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.
Nate Silver
When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.
Vijay Kumar
Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
Ice T
You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future.
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Peter Greenaway
The only plan the Administration seems to have for winning the war is that there is no plan and no schedule for our troops to come home and get out of harm's way.
Eliot Engel
After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though it showered its neighbours, including China, with generous economic assistance. Only in 1995 did it finally offer an apology, but this was of the most limited and formulaic kind.
Martin Jacques
It can be painful leaving parts of yourself behind. Change and shuffling off your previous skin is traumatic, but it can be done.
Jamie Parker
Well, the first War of the Machines seems to be drawing to its final inconclusive chapter - leaving, alas, everyone the poorer, many bereaved or maimed and millions dead, and only one thing triumphant: the Machines. As the servants of the Machine are becoming a privileged class, the Machines are going to be enormously more powerful. What's their next move?
J. R. R. Tolkien