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  • George Orwell Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bobby McFerrin Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • Bryan Greenberg Seriously, my music really does help my acting, and, like, getting in and out of a character from a different lifestyle and writing a song about it. Likewise, my acting inspires the music because I can write a theme that I wouldn't necessarily approach at all in life.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Bobby Vinton Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe that's the reason I've been around so long.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Thomas à Kempis Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Antonio Porchia Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • Bram Stoker Seven years ago we all went through the flames. And the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured.
    Dracula (1897) Jonathan Harker
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Marty Feldman Sex is two plus two making five, rather than four. Sex is the X ingredient that you can't define, and it's that X ingredient between two people that make both a man and a woman good in bed. It's all relative. There are no rules.
    Marty Feldman
    British actor and comedian (1934 - 1982)
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  • Ben Parr Sharing with just your friends doesn't protect your privacy. I know the people at Facebook will disagree and argue that users can control what is shared with whom. But this is simply an illusion that makes us feel better about all the sharing we have done and are about to do.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Christina Rossetti She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
    Christina Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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  • Arnold Rothstein She hates me and you hate me, but you all love Harry. Nobody loves me.
    Arnold Rothstein
    American racketeer, businessman and gambler (1882 - 1928)
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  • Oscar Wilde She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
    Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
    French statesman (1754 - 1838)
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  • Alice Walker She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Barbara Cooney She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
    Barbara Cooney
    American writer and illustrator (1917 - 2000)
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm She was one of those people who said ''I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.''
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • Anne Bronte She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.
    Anne Bronte
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Winston Churchill Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Bo Bennett Show interest in all people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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