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As one of my predecessors said, our objective is not to take people to heaven, but to prevent humanity from going to hell.
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As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
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As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.
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At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces.
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At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.
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Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
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Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.
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Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.
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Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.
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Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, ''I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
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Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
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Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you can write like you write, then you are true to yourself. And it's not an easy thing to do - it's a disgustingly difficult thing to do.
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Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said Oh man, this is the stuff. It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!
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But as you said, there are going to be those that have no record and cannot be detected in that capacity so that is why you have to have other layers of security.
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But here's old Ken - he's been crass, he's been insensitive and thuggish and brutal in his language - but I don't think actually if you read what he said, although it was extraordinary and rude, I don't think he was actually anti-Semitic.
Source: Quotes of the Day, The Times, 18 February 2005, p. 2. -
But it was very hard for people to separate me out from Hillary Clinton. All their ads were Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, and me. They said I was more liberal than these guys, and that if I went to Washington I'd be supporting their agenda. I found that extremely difficult to overcome.
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