Quotes with rock-and-roll

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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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  • Alan Cohen View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross.
    View it as your friend, and it will give you wings.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Walt Whitman Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bill Bixby Viewers can't expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let's face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by 'beefing'.
    Bill Bixby
    American actor, director and producer (1934 - 1993)
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  • Kofi Annan Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography, culture or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development and peace.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Anthony Burgess Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Cate Blanchett Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Cat Stevens Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Julius Kambarge Nyerere Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.
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  • William Hazlitt Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
    Source: Table-Talk (1824)
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Burt Rutan Virgin Galactic, which will be operating SpaceShipTwo, will be only one of several spacelines. The competitors for Virgin include the Russians, Bezos's Blue Origin, and possibly Rocketplane Kistler. And likely a couple of others who are smart enough not to tell people what they are doing!
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Bernard Williams Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to study classics and, unlike Cambridge, it had a philosophy component, and I became completely transported by it.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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