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  • Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
  • Eurobonds are absolutely wrong. In order to bring about common interest rates, you need similar competitiveness levels, similar budget situations. You don't get them by collectivizing debts.
  • As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.
  • As far as same-sex marriage, I really would want to think about that a lot more given the fact that my focus would be always on the child. The innocent should not be given more even burdens than what is absolutely necessary.
  • I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
  • I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.
  • Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
  • As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.
  • It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.
  • According to my sister, the expert novelist Jackie Collins, most men stray. And sex doesn't mean anything to most men. But I wouldn't date a man who slept around. Absolutely not. I've divorced people for that.
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  • Gloria Steinem Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Adrian Edmondson From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
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  • Will Cuppy Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
    Will Cuppy
    American humorist and critic (1884 - 1949)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Ben Lovett 'I Just Might Pray' by The David Mayfield Parade has an upbeat tempo without being sugary sweet. 'I Just Might Pray' is an enjoyable track and is easily listened to. As a side note, the video for 'I Just Might Pray' is absolutely adorable.
    Ben Lovett
    American recording artist, film composer, songwriter and producer (1978 - )
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  • Ivan Turgenev ... if we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
    Ivan Turgenev
    Russian novelist, short story writer, poet and playwright (1818 - 1883)
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  • Henry Ford A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Eric Hoffer Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Absolutely the United States should lead in space, for the survival of the United States. It's inspiring for the next generation. If we lose leadership, then we'll be using Chinese capability to inspire Americans.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Joan Collins According to my sister, the expert novelist Jackie Collins, most men stray. And sex doesn't mean anything to most men. But I wouldn't date a man who slept around. Absolutely not. I've divorced people for that.
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  • David Herbert Lawrence America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Augusten Burroughs As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Benigno Aquino III As far as same-sex marriage, I really would want to think about that a lot more given the fact that my focus would be always on the child. The innocent should not be given more even burdens than what is absolutely necessary.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • William Goldman As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.
    William Goldman
    American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1931 - 2018)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Bell Hooks As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.
    Ending Racism Killing Rage
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Jeff Dewar Ask yourself, ''If I had only sixty seconds on the stage, what would I absolutely have to say to get my message across.
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  • Cameron Mackintosh Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
    Cameron Mackintosh
    British theatrical producer and theatre owner (1946 - )
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  • John Milton Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Samuel Johnson Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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