Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
Owen Arthur
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
Walter Dean Myers
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
Lance Armstrong
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
H. L. Mencken
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
Hans Kung
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
Dana Spiotta
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
Dan Ariely
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
Walter Gropius
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
Wallis Simpson
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Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
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People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.
N. T. Wright
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I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.
Ted Ligety
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My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
Vanessa Williams
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How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.
Tatiana Maslany
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I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.
Padgett Powell
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This man who was my father's age hit me hard on my head when I was 17. I started bleeding. I took out my sandal and hit his head hard, and he started to bleed, too.
Kangana Ranaut
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A man may lie to his psychiatrist, his doctor, his wife, his employer, to God and to Mom, but his teeth tell all.
Stephen Hunter
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A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
