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The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalyzed into the atom bomb; God's thunderbolt became blunted, so man's thunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction.
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The focus of my administration is, if somebody decides to work abroad, then it has to be from choice as opposed to necessity.
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The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.
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The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
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The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.
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The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it.
Source: Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 119 -
The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
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The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
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The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.
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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it.
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