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  • Lord George Byron A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • John Gray A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.
    John Gray
    American relationship counselor, lecturer and author (1948 - )
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  • Jean François Lyotard A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
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  • Milan Kundera A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Barry Hannah A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Jane Harrison A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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  • Berthold Auerbach A.N. hopes in the next world for his felicity to live with Raphael, Mozart, and Goethe. But how can they be happy if they must live with him?
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Bradley Whitford Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Bill Gates About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
    Speech at the University of Washington, as reported in Gates, Buffett a bit bearish CNET News (2 July 1998)
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Gloria Pitzer About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
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  • Alexander Pope Absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
    Letter to Jonathan Swift (14 december 1725)
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Elizabeth Ashley Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.
    Elizabeth Ashley
    American actress of theatre, film, and television (1939 - )
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  • Tacitus Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Albert Ellis Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Caitlin Doughty Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Joan Collins According to my sister, the expert novelist Jackie Collins, most men stray. And sex doesn't mean anything to most men. But I wouldn't date a man who slept around. Absolutely not. I've divorced people for that.
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Caity Lotz Acting is my number one, but dancing will always be a part of who I am and in my heart. I love doing stunts when they are a part of my acting.
    Caity Lotz
    American actress, dancer and singer (1986 - )
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