Bias of Priene Quotes
Cherish wisdom as a means of travelling from youth to old age, for it is more lasting than any other possession.
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
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I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
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You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.
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I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.
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We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.
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Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun.
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If only she could have held on to that day, held on to that moment forever, grasped it in her fists so it wouldn't escape. If only.
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I waste energy on anger rather than investing it in hope.
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The commander's talents are given greatest scope in rough hilly country. Mountains allow him too little real command over his scattered units and he is unable to control them all; in open country, control is a simple matter and does not test his ability to the fullest.
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Brainwashed from rock and rap.
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The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state. I very much favor democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.
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Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
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I do this weird thing in studios where I climb stuff when I get nervous.
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Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I didn't become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris.
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In the technology industry, a 48 hour work week would be, for most, a vacation.
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Cherish wisdom as a means of travelling from youth to old age, for it is more lasting than any other possession.
