Quotes 22701 till 22720 of 25274.
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Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.
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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.
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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.
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Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.
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Western culture from the start has swerved from femaleness. The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
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Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia.
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Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.
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We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.
Source: Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 167 -
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!
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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
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What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
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What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
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What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.
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What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god - the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!
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What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
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