Jane Austen Quotes
She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
Jane Austen
Quotes to Explore
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When I did these psychological characters like the drug addicts, the ones who were rejected and dejected, I started to feel a sort of melancholia which was very unnatural for me to have at a teenage. Then I avoided those characters.
Kangana Ranaut
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Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell real news from fake, they give up their demands for accountability bit by bit.
Naomi Wolf
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Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.
Pankaj Mishra
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Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay.
Gary Miller
Bad Brains
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… when we place our hope in worldly vanities, in money, in success. Then the Word of God says to us: 'Why do you seek the living among the dead?'. Why are you searching there? That thing cannot give you life! Yes, perhaps it will cheer you up for a moment, for a day, for a week, for a month … and then?
Vanity
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The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.
H. L. Mencken
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I don’t say I’ve got much of a soul, but, such as it is, I’m perfectly satisfied with the little chap. I don’t want people fooling about with it. ‘Leave it alone,’ I say. ‘Don’t touch it. I like it the way it is.’
P. G. Wodehouse
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Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit Of This and That endeavour and dispute; Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.
Omar Khayyam
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If the songs are dreamed, it's like my voice is coming out of their dream.
Bob Dylan
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The French are … the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation of Europe, and the one that is surest to inspire admiration, hatred, terror, or pity, but never indifference.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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We are waging a nuclear war in Iraq right now. That country is contaminated. It will be contaminated for practically eternity now.
Cindy Sheehan
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My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.
M.I.A.
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There are two clever tricks men know. One is to make much of nothing. The second is to make nothing of much.
Tanith Lee
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If you want to change the world, first change your heart.
Confucius
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I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.
Dana Plato
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People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
Kurt Vonnegut
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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
Jane Austen
