Marcel Proust Quotes
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Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.
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Female clothing seems to be extremely difficult and almost like a puzzle for a man to take off. But I think if you get there, you win. A kilt is the complete opposite. The kilt is so easy to take off.
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I've been a lucky boy.
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Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.
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Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
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I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.
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My mother read me biblical stories at night.
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For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.
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Genius: the superhuman in man.
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I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.
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Scientists have long known that Darwinism is false. They have adhered to the myth out of self-interest and a zealous desire to put down God.
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In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business has been the greatest miracle the world has ever known.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
