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Popular quotes of the
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Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.
Socrates -
I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.
Thomas A. Edison -
Don't tell me what delusion he entertains regarding God, or what mountebank he follows in politics, or what he springs from, or what he submits to from his wife. Simply tell me how he makes his living. It is the safest and surest of all known tests. A man who gets his board and lodging on this ball in an ignominious way is inevitably an ignominious man.
H. L. Mencken -
Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris.
Tacitus -
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
Rabindranath Tagore -
When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
Tacitus
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How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln -
Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.
Mario Andretti -
It's good to be sent back to the underground. There's always a good side to bad things and the good side to this is that at least everyone has to go back down.
Joe Strummer The Clash -
Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music.
Little Richard -
Europe can be saved.
Viktor Orban -
Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
Dana Perino
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Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.
E. L. Doctorow -
Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
Abraham Lincoln -
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Albert Einstein -
But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.
Frances Perkins -
The understanding that the political and intellectual class of the United States has of Mexico is a country whose position is that of a back yard.
Adolfo Aguilar Zinser -
Pot is a better drug than alcohol. Fact! … I'll prove it to you. If you're at a ball game or a concert and someone's really violent and aggressive and obnoxious, are they drunk or are they smoking pot? The crowd answers 'Drunk.' Wow! We all know the truth.
Bill Hicks
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It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.
Claudette Colbert -
Insurance brokers make way too much money for the value they provide.
Parker Conrad -
Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.
Cliff Burton Metallica -
Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.
Eli Roth -
The scariest people are usually the sweetest.
Eli Roth -
I love movies that are just straight-up exploitation, but the ones that endure and the ones that last are the ones where the filmmakers put in that extra level of thought; after 25 years you put them on in front of an audience, and they'll respond to it and enjoy it.
Eli Roth