Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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Most of our songs are about relationships.
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Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.
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There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.
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It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.
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It's kind of hard to put your finger on it. There are a lot of things that you could sit here and make excuses about or something.
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The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.
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I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.
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Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.
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When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do not see how they can get rid of it. Nevertheless, both arrive; and the gods have ordered it so, in the end men seek it from the gods.
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The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.
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My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which the subject is to be found. When I am wearied, I shut all the drawers and go to sleep.
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We have come too far, - struggled too long, - sacrificed too much and have too much left to do, - to allow that which we have achieved for the good of all to be swept away without a fight. And we have not forgotten how to fight.
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.
