Quotes with make-believe

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  • Barney Frank The fact that they're a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that it's National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • George Orwell The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Andy Rooney The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Isadora Duncan The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • Aldous Huxley The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • André Malraux The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Charles Buxton The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.
    Charles Buxton
    British writer (1823 - 1871)
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  • Assata Shakur The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practise.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Robert Frost The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Julie Burchill The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.
    Julie Burchill
    British journalist, writer
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  • John Mortimer The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
    John Mortimer
    English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author (1923 - 2009)
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  • Constantin Brancusi The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.
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  • Lionel Trilling 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.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • A. J. Liebling The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • Hilaire Belloc The future always comes as a surprise, but political wisdom consists in attempting at least some partial judgment of what that surprise may be. And for my part I cannot but believe that a main unexpected thing of the future is the return of Islam.
    The Great Heresies (1938) H. III
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Andrea Dworkin The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Gamal Abdel Nasser The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing.
    Gamal Abdel Nasser
    Egyptian president and general (1918 - 1970)
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  • Betsy Beers The goal for Shondaland is to continue to make very good shows that we're proud of when they're ready.
    Betsy Beers
    American television and film producer (1957 - )
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