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  • Sade has barely made a dent on American academic consciousness. It is his violence far more than his sex which is so hard for liberals to accept. For Sade, sex is violence. Violence is the authentic spirit of mother nature.
  • Neither creator nor critic can make himself universal by barely taking thought about it. He is what he lives. The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts Into his work. The measure of the critic is the amount of life he finds there.

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  • Bill Bryson We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Lao-Tzu A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Fran Lebowitz All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht And when she was finished they laid her in earth
    Flowers growing, butterflies juggling over her...
    She, so light, barely pressed the earth down
    How much pain it took to make her as light as that!
    Poems, 1913-1956 To my mother [Meiner Mutter] (May 1920), trans. Jo
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bill de Blasio As N.Y.C. Public Advocate, I released a report that showed that stop-and-frisks of African Americans in 2012 were barely half as likely to yield a weapon as those of white New Yorkers - and a third less likely to yield contraband. Despite this evidence, the vast majority of those stopped are young black and Latino men.
    Bill de Blasio
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard For me, breastfeeding was even more painful than giving birth. And despite a lactation consultant, I felt incompetent. I forged on, barely sleeping, always either breastfeeding or pumping and never getting the hang of it.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Henry Kissinger It is barely conceivable that there are people who like war.
    Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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  • Carl Van Doren Neither creator nor critic can make himself universal by barely taking thought about it. He is what he lives. The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts Into his work. The measure of the critic is the amount of life he finds there.
    The Roving Critic (1923)
    Carl Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1950)
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  • Leonard Cohen Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Camille Paglia Sade has barely made a dent on American academic consciousness. It is his violence far more than his sex which is so hard for liberals to accept. For Sade, sex is violence. Violence is the authentic spirit of mother nature.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Mark Twain Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Carrie Fisher There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the elastic at the waist stretched to its limit and beyond - topped with the fashion equivalent of a tea cozy. And always black, because I was in mourning for my slimmer self.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Alcee Hastings Today, barely 5 percent of all containers coming into the United States through our ports are scanned.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Paula Nelson Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler rather than money-maker, and our assigned specialty is far more likely to be home economics than financial economics.
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