Samuel Johnson Quotes
Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
Samuel Johnson
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
Samantha Power
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
Edmund White
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
Patricia Norris
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
Sallust
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.
Kami Garcia
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
Hanna Rosin
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
Fletcher Knebel
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I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.
Natasha Lyonne
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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
M. Stanton Evans
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
Damien Rice
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
Patrick deWitt
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I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.
Dan Devine
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There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and, you know, wants to use real life in his books. The other part is the Midwesterner, who, you know, wants to say nice things about people and be polite.
Walter Kirn
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The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes.
Adam Smith
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We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world and the spiritual agents are from the very headquarters of evil. Therefore, we must wear the "whole armour of God," that we may be able to resist evil in its day of power, and that even when we have fought to a standstill, we may still stand our ground.
Corrie Ten Boom
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The sexism in Hollywood is not particularly overt - because the system is good at hiding it.
Elizabeth Banks
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If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.
Xenophon
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Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
Samuel Johnson
