Quotes 1401 till 1420 of 13894.
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A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
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A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.
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A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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A recipe is not an exact formula, but it does need a certain structure. When the bones are right, you can dress it in many ways.
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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.
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A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
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A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.
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A right is not what someone gives you, it's what no one can take away from you.
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A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and a mask on his face.
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A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
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A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?'' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. ''Yet,'' added he, ''none of you can tell where it pinches me.
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