Bronislaw Malinowski Quotes
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For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.
Lady Bird Johnson
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Torture is something that happens between two people, the torturer and the victim. The victim is made to taste death without actually dying. He is subjected to atrocious pain and begs his torturer to kill him. He's even ready to forgive the torturer as long as he kills him.
Saadi Yacef
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A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.
Oscar Wilde
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London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
Oscar Wilde
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Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision.
Napoleon Hill
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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
Queen Victoria
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And you can save more money for retirement. It’s not just about marshmallows.
Walter Mischel
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If you look at some of the clips of me in the operating room, I sit in the chair, I control the microscope with my mouth, I connect, my hands are always working in the brain, my feet are controlling everything.
Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
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God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.
Fiorello LaGuardia
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All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River...And singers like Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters gave me the feeling that they were right there, standing by the river.
John Fogerty
Creedence Clearwater Revival
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I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.
Tina Turner
Ike & Tina Turner
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W.H.R. Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.
Bronislaw Malinowski