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People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm not really very patient with patrons rapping during the show. And the people were all nice and quiet when I cam back.
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People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
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Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.
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Periodically, at the end of a conversation, someone will ask me, 'Is there something I can do for you?' I used to answer with 'Do something that is helpful to something or someone in my world.'
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Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
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Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.
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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.
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Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.
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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
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Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
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President Abbas, you've dedicated your life to advancing the Palestinian cause. Must this conflict continue for generations, or will we enable our children and our grandchildren to speak in years ahead of how we found a way to end it? That's what we should aim for, and that's what I believe we can achieve.
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Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
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Products are a must - full stop. I'm sorry to say it, but that bob won't look so sleek on its own - you need a little help. It doesn't have to be the high-end stuff that they sell in the salon. Products you find in the supermarket are just as good, and sometimes better.
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Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning.
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Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.
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