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  • George Bernard Shaw Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Richard P. Feynman Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
    Richard P. Feynman
    American theoretical physicist and Nobel price winner (1918 - 1988)
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  • Carmen Kass Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.
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  • Samuel Johnson Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Abba Eban Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Charles Baudelaire Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Billy Collins 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.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Allen Ginsberg Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Anthony Hecht Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
    Anthony Hecht
    American poet (1923 - 2004)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Bruce Sterling Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Vera Brittain Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
    Vera Brittain
    English nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist (1893 - 1970)
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  • Ronald Reagan Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Emma Goldman Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Angela Carter Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Camille Paglia Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Robertson Davies Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Carey Mulligan Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • Carey Mulligan Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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