Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy.
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.
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It would be pretty awesome to hear Eminem singing 'I'm a Good Girl'. Haha! Love Eminem!
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Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.
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Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
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I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.
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Perhaps it is the positive knowledge that humans now possess the means to destroy their whole planet, the fear that they have in this way themselves become the gods, dreadfully charged with their own continued existence, that has made comic-book and movie myth escapist.
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The Internet was invented in America but has found its largest number of users in China.
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I couldn't sell air conditioners on a 98-degree day. When I demonstrated them in a showroom, I pushed the wrong button and blew the circuit.
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I'm basically turning my apartment into an armory.
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Both from the standpoint of stocks and bonds, an investor wants to go where the growth is.
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Any woman who has attempted to slip a credit card into an inch-deep trouser pocket knows about the annoying puzzle of women's clothing: Pockets rarely work.
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Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
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Comparing the Trump administration to the Nazis may be a stretch, but many business leaders are concerned that stirring up deep-seated racial and nationalist animosities could be destabilizing, leading to riots, property damage and widespread civil unrest reminiscent of the late 1960s.
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I don't want to be an elitist designer. It's no fun just catering for a small group of people. It's against my principles.
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I made history and therefore did not find time to write it.
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They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve around Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of the primary exactly three of his diameters, and the outermost five: the former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the latter in twenty-one and a half, so that the squares of their periodical times are very near in the same proportion with the cubes of their distances from the center of Mars; which evidently shows them to be governed by the same Law of Gravitation that influences the other heavenly bodies.
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She wouldn't shake my hand! I said 'C'mon, be a gentleman'.
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I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.
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A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.
