Ernest Gellner Quotes
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I cannot either change or do anything bad or good to the Syrian people and Syrian citizens.
Najib Mikati
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
E. M. Forster
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I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.
Patrick deWitt
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I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
Walter Dean Myers
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Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
Camille Paglia
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The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.
Adam Hamilton
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On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.
Saint Patrick
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I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row.
Gary Kemp
Spandau Ballet
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Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They're nice; they're polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.
Adam Grant
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It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.
W. G. Sebald
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What's in your soul is in your soul.
Whitney Houston
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I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.
Hermann Hesse
