Tacitus Quotes
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I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.
Hari Kondabolu
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Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.
Ice Cube
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People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
Ralph Nader
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
Salman Rushdie
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
Kate Brown
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Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.
Hanna Rosin
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I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
Karen Allen
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This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
Ban Ki-moon
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It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!
Gail Sheehy
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Lara's done very well recently and I never had any doubts about the abilities of Lara or Waugh.
Sachin Tendulkar
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But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
Oscar Robertson
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That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.
H. P. Lovecraft
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
Major Taylor
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When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.
Florence Henderson
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It's kind of a funny way to put it, but if you want to study a dynamic economic system, what you'd like to be able to do is focus on the linkages, say, between asset markets and the macro economy without having to model everything at the same time.
Lars Peter Hansen
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Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke - I live in a joke. Seattle at least got to wear out its identity before it became a joke.
Sir Isaac Brock KB
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So you have to take the good with the bad.
Candace Parker
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Art advances by self-mutilation of the artist.
Camille Paglia
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I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.
H. L. Mencken
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Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement.
Christian Slater
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Was it proof of madness in the first corps of sea officers to have, at so critical a period, launched out on the ocean with only two armed merchant ships, two armed brigantines, and one armed sloop, to make war against such a power as Great Britain?
John Paul Jones
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Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.
J. G. Holland
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The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Expugnatae urbis praedam ad militem, deditae ad duces pertinere.
Tacitus