Quotes with out-of-the-way

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  • William S. Burroughs The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them.
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  • Seng-Ts'an The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set apart.
    Seng-Ts'an
    Chinese third patriarch of Zen Buddhism
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  • Stuart Wilde The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.
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  • Norman Vincent Peale The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Barbara Bush The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller The physical is inherently entropic, giving off energy in ever more disorderly ways. The metaphysical is antientropic, methodically marshalling energy. Life is antientropic. It is spontaneously inquisitive. It sorts out and endeavors to understand.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Branford Marsalis The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Ben Jonson The players often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Aldous Huxley The pleasures of ignorance are as great in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Carol Ann Duffy The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play.
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Barry Marshall The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Betty Grable The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.
    Betty Grable
    American actress, model, and singer (1916 - 1973)
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  • Beeban Kidron The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Nadine Gordimer The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution, there were no limits (save for the effect of trail by jury) to what the legislature might do.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 182
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Bob Kerrey The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let's get out of here.
    Bob Kerrey
    American politician (1943 - )
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  • Bruce Kent The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.
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