Quotes 1901 till 1920 of 20393.
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Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.
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Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term to describe portfolios that have been assembled for purposes other than serving the clients' best interests.
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An act of God was defined as ''something which no reasonable man could have expected.''
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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
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An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
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An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
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An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.
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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
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An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.
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An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.
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