Andrew Lang Quotes
Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts-for support rather than illumination.
Andrew Lang
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
T. C. Boyle
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
Lara Flynn Boyle
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
Otto Rank
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I'm a real girly-girl.
Olivia Culpo
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
Aaron Allston
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
Faye Dunaway
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A number of countries, including some who have loudly criticized the NSA, privately acknowledge that America has special responsibilities as the world's only superpower, that our intelligence capabilities are critical to meeting these responsibilities, and that they themselves have relied on the information we obtain to protect their own people.
Barack Obama
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I think it's really important to get in early and for women to do mammograms, to do screenings, to do all these things that aren't always necessarily covered by Medicare, by insurances, and to really start working to get those more available for people.
Cobie Smulders
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It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.
Conrad Hall
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I'm so proud to lead an agency driven by so many dedicated people. Working on a holiday, and through a government shutdown, to fulfill their commitment to America.
Scott Gottlieb
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No sudden inspiration can replace the long years of arduous labor necessary to train the eye to observe, the hand to reproduce.
Auguste Rodin
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Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts-for support rather than illumination.
Andrew Lang
