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  • Barbara Deming Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.
    Source: We are all part of one another
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Theocritus Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.
    Theocritus
    Greek poet
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  • Voltaire Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Salman Rushdie Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • H. P. Lovecraft Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
    H. P. Lovecraft
    American writer (1890 - 1937)
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  • Boman Irani Very few movies remain in public memory as landmark films, and I want to see whether '3 Idiots' will be up there with some of the wonderful films that have come out of this country... Hopefully, we'll come to know in a few years whether it can become one of the great films.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Cassidy Gifford Very few people are blessed enough to call their father a legend, and an even smaller number are able to share that notion with the rest of the world.
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  • Boy George Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Caroline Wozniacki Very few women get asked to be in the swimsuit issue, and I'm really proud to be one of so many beautiful and empowering women.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • E. M. Forster Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • A. S. W. Rosenbach Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
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  • Ben Jonson Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Susan Sontag Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Basil King Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.
    Basil King
    Canadian preacher and novelist (1859 - 1928)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Bruce Jackson Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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