Richard M. Nixon Quotes
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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
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What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.
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I remember being totally enamored with Sid Caesar.
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I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.
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I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.
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It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in physics, where leading theorists are striving, with the help of experimentalists, to devise a single mathematical theory that embraces all the basic phenomena of matter and energy. The other two are in biology. Biologists-and the rest of us too-would like to know how the brain works and how a single cell, the fertilized egg cell, develops into an entire organism.
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I don't like myself. I'm not vain at all. I hate looking at myself - I always think I look ugly. Honest.
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Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
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Test every work of intellect or faith, And everything that your own hands have wrought And call those works extravagance of breath That are not suited for such men as come Proud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb.
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"We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?..."
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I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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I judge people based on merit, on personality.
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There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.
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From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.
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I want to remember what bullshit looks like when weapons of mass destruction are diagrammed out and whacko "intelligence" is delivered in an ominous way to strike fear into people and especially to pull on the idealism and zeal of the young.
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Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain instead of the piercing vision of the desirous heart. It interests man, but does not involve him in its processes: does not catch him up to the new and more real life which it describes. Hence the thing that matters, the living thing, has somehow escaped it; and its observations bear the same relation to reality as the art of the anatomist does to the mystery of birth.
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Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.
