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Quotes 861 till 880 of 1247.

  • Carlos Santana The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.
    Carlos Santana
    Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Camille Paglia The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned to another hundred years of trial and error. The rest of us can safely ignore them.
    Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Carl Van Vechten The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.
    Carl Van Vechten
    American writer and photographer (1880 - 1964)
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  • Italo Calvino The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • W. H. Auden The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • George Orwell The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Barry White The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
    Barry White
    American singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (1944 - 2003)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Mary McCarthy The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Pindar The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
    Pindar
    Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes (522 - 443)
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  • Alice Munro The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Carol Bellamy The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Ann Macbeth The existing documentary makers still believe that it is impossible to produce drama material in this State, otherwise they would be doing it, they say.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Bono The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Caroline Wozniacki The fact is I still have quite a few good years in front of me. I still improve.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Will Rogers The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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