Enrique Jardiel Poncela Quotes
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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It's a good giggle to look back at yourself in your 20s. You thought you were so fierce and fabulous, and it's just embarrassing.
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Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.
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A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.
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I'm OK: I don't need money.
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Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
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High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.
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As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.
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Care-Charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,Brother to Death, in silent darkness born,Relieve my languish, and restore the light;With dark forgetting of my care return.And let the day be time enough to mournThe shipwreck of my ill adventured youth
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Civility is a choice.
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We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
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You're on Facebook, and you're supposed to know your sexual orientation at 13... Nobody really knows what's going on at that time, and people seem to... know stuff, or they have to act like they do, and they make decisions before they really need to.
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The experiences of the years...have brought the country, particularly its young people, to a mood of depression, disillusion, and withdrawal from the effort to affect the world.
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I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.
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When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
