Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
Sallust
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If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
Lao Tzu
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Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
Jack Prelutsky
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Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
Patrick Duffy
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You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.
Nastassja Kinski
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Never judge a stranger by his clothes.
Zachary Taylor
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Anything can happen when people run for office.
Larry King
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The time has long since come for truth, transparency, and talks in every sector of society, including media, advertisement and entertainment. We can challenge each other, gain understanding, and create a more just, humane, and peaceful world.
Bernice King
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While the move to central clearing has made the system safer, we need to make sure that the central counterparties have the resources and risk-management practices to withstand plausible but severe shocks.
Jerome Powell
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I was at this fancy school, and I felt out of place, so I rebelled.
Jimmy John Liautaud
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I started out as a business manager for a national hotel chain based in Oklahoma. I got frustrated with what was happening in the state capital - the high cost of doing business and a lack of educated workers.
Mary Fallin
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The publicity and hoopla was never important to me.
Jesse Stone
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Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways?
William Shakespeare
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No horse named Morbid ever won a race.
Ernest Hemingway
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Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you are talking about, what you are actually proposing. It gets you away from the catch phrases that not merely substitute for thought but preclude it.
Edwin Newman
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Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
