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Quotes 1921 till 1940 of 2981.

  • Bea Arthur PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.
    Bea Arthur
    American actress and comedian (1922 - 2009)
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  • Ouida Petty laws breed great crimes.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Cassidy Gifford Philippians 4:13 has never rung so true... You were an unparalleled Giant in all sense of the word, Dad. So keep doin' you up there, because no one does it better, and no one ever will.
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  • Albert Pike Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Berenice Abbott Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
    Source: Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays
    Berenice Abbott
    American photographer (1898 - 1991)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Beth Henley Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Roland Barthes Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Augustine J. Duganne Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.
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  • C. K. Williams Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
    C. K. Williams
    American poet, critic and translator (1936 - 2015)
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  • Audre Lorde Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
    Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 38
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Camille Paglia Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Lord George Byron Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Malcolm X Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Malcolm X Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • George Santayana Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Benjamin Banneker Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
    Benjamin Banneker
    African-American almanac author, and surveyor (0 - 1806)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki Pretty hard to sweep me off my feet. It would have to take someone very special. You never know. I guess when you least expect it, it's going to come.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Alphonse De Lamartine Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
    Alphonse De Lamartine
    French poet, statesman and historian (1790 - 1869)
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