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  • Sylvester Stallone Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially.
    Sylvester Stallone
    American actor and filmmaker (1946 - )
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  • Bill Burr Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn't work out. But maybe because it didn't work out, that's why I ended up on 'Breaking Bad;' I don't know.
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Bob Rae Like sailors, we cannot change the weather or the direction of the wind. But we change the direction of our sails.
    Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Five, The Second Question: Charity and Welfare
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bethany Hamilton Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometimes you don't do as well as you want to. It can be discouraging at times. But whenever I do get frustrated, I just focus on God.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it' s not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn't over the last 150 years.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • W. H. Auden Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Oscar Wilde Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Louis Menand Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison - a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.
    Louis Menand
     
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  • Antonio Tabucchi Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Octavio Paz Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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  • Salman Rushdie Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Roland Barthes Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Adam Smith Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Washington Irving Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Eileen Caddy Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
    Eileen Caddy
    Scottisch spiritual teacher (1917 - 2006)
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  • Anne Sexton Live or die, but don't poison everything.
    Anne Sexton
    American poet (1928 - 1974)
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • Brene Brown Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That's an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can't cheat real connection. It's built up slowly. It's about trust and time.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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