Benjamin Earl King (Ben E. King) Quotes
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I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.
L. Frank Baum
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Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication.
Elbert Hubbard
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Manus haec inimica tyrannisEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem.
Algernon Sidney
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Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild.
Aldo Leopold
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J'ai embrassé l'aube d'été.
Arthur Rimbaud
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I am grateful to have played a small role in the conversations that have helped guide this extraordinary nation's destiny.
Charles Krauthammer
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Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?
Ernest Hemingway
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The anarchist, as the born foe of authority, will be destroyed by it after damaging it more or less. The anarch, on the other hand, has appropriated authority; he is sovereign. He therefore behaves as a neutral power vis-à-vis state and society. He may like, dislike, or be indifferent to whatever occurs in them. That is what determines his conduct; he invests no emotional values.
Ernst Junger
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If you are thinking of nything with dependence upon it, there is a motive of curiosity, or pleasure, or success, and though the thinking will help towards satisfaction you will still be in bondage. There is no harm in this, but the higher samadhi, without such motives, is best.
Ernest Wood
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American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.
David Mamet
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I'd originally intended 'Stand By Me' for the Drifters.
Benjamin Earl King