Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.
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I wanted to just come out and continue to improve my game, continue to improve my mental capacity to play well in tournaments. I've had a slow year compared to last year, but I've been pleased because I felt like I was getting better.
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Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
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Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
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I still feel that I am in my prime right now but I think my best fights were in my thirties.
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Henry James joyously engaged in the act of writing. A good day's writing gave him a sense of strength, of control over chaos, a victory of order and clarity over the confused battle of existence.
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Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.
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Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.
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When a father is quick to lose his tempre, his sons are fools.
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When the public doesn't want me any longer, I'll quit.
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As time goes by people will see who I am for who I am.
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people.
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In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.
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The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
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You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.
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We know estimates to build a new jail run about $90 million and would cost $25 million to operate, ... We owe it to the taxpayers of Oakland County to explore other options.
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Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.
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I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor! If you look at the whole history of science fiction, what people have said is going to happen, what writers have said is going to happen, and what actually happened - it's terrible.
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It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to dust, and, it may be, turn to daisies, in the grave. But it is death to have the soul paralyzed, its inner life quenched, its faculties dissipated; that is death.
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We are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth.
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I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.
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Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.
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The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.
