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  • Beau Willimon Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Bill Clinton Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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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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  • Woody Allen Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Cardinal de Retz She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.
    Cardinal de Retz
    French churchman and writer of memoirs (1613 - 1679)
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  • Rebecca West She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Oscar Wilde She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Euripides Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Bret Harte Snow. Everywhere. As far as the eye could reach — fifty miles, looking southward from the highest peak.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Bayard Taylor So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Bertrand Russell So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
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    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Emile Wiechert So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infinit
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  • Bayard Taylor So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • T. S. Eliot So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Samuel Johnson So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Brent Scowcroft So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Art Buchwald So far things are going my way. I am known in the hospice as The Man Who Wouldn't Die. I don't know if this is true or not, but I think some people, not many, are starting to wonder why I'm still around.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Anna Louise Strong So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Bob Inglis So I submit to my colleagues here today that hydrogen is not as far away as we think it is.
    Bob Inglis
    American politician (1959 - )
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  • Barbara Boxer So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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