Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
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In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It feels like a continuation of the Blondie sound. It's very eclectic, ... Our influences are not all musical. We're influenced by art, culture, camp values and irony. That's what puts us away from the rest of the pack.
Clem Burke
Blondie
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One of the great ironies of the social media era is that some of the least social people in the world created it.
Sarah Lacy
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The irony is that Barack Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He would, most of all, know that what he is doing weakens the Constitution.
Nat Hentoff
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Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.
Henry Louis Gates
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Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.
Chapman Cohen
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My sense, and I'm sort of guessing, is that the journalists were being classified by the government as common criminals, and the political prisoners were so resistant to being that. Always keeping the other prisoners as murderers, thieves, that sort of thing, which has a certain irony to it, I guess. It's a curious thing.
Adam Braver
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Memorable occasions should be brief, and so should be the expressions of appreciation.
Simon Kuznets
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Your lips are my persuasion, your love will be my cure.
Billy Squier
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I play the sax, piano, guitar, bass... I started as a kid with piano lessons.
Mike Dean
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Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
Edwin Percy Whipple
