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  • Billy Corgan In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Martin Luther In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.
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  • Iris Murdoch In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Anna Louise Strong In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Frank Dane In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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  • John Adams In politics the middle way is none at all.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Heinrich Heine In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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  • Eldridge Cleaver In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • George Gurdjieff In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Anne Tyler In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Anita Brookner In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Anita Brookner In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Beck In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool. On paper, though, it's all stripped back. The musical idea is the one that wins.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Saviour gave to the world was communicated through this book.
    Reply to Loyal Colored People of Baltimore upon Presentation of a Bible, 7 september 1864
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Aldous Huxley In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Mary McCarthy In science, all facts no matter how trivial, enjoy democratic equality.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Dan Cruickshank In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, high-tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit - if totally different in form - from all the romantic architecture of the past.
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  • Guy Debord In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
    Guy Debord
    French philosopher (1931 - 1994)
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  • William Randolph Hearst In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.
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