Lewis Carroll Quotes
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Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers.
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Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
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Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?
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Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.
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It's two people that are in love with one another. What's the issue?
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I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on set, I don't have to go to the bathroom, I don't have anything wrong, I'm perfectly fine, so through-and-through. I'm not hungry. I'm literally not even in my own body.
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Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.
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Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands But love, fair looks and true obedience; Too little payment for so great a debt.
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Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making.
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At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.
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Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic systems would produce poets, painters, and musicians.
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For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to fall: The order of the phrases makes no difference at all.
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My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.
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Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.
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People go for help, but their lives don't get better because of those psychiatric drugs. They get worse. They feel numb and they're told that's a good thing. It's how you degrade a society - by drugging the piss out of it.
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A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
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And it wasn't until I came out here to California when my brother got a role on the show Alice, that I also began to go on auditions for acting roles.
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The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.
