 The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people. Author: A. B. Yehoshua
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| Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. Author: A. E. Housman
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| In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader. Author: A. E. van Vogt
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| Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914. Author: A. J. P. Taylor
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| The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. Author: A. J. P. Taylor
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| The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long. Author: A. J. P. Taylor
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| If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great. Author: Aaron Neville
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| Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright. Author: Aaron Sorkin
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| It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling. Author: Aaron Sorkin
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| Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues. Author: Aaron Sorkin
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| There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do. Author: Aaron Sorkin
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| It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter. Author: Abbey Lincoln
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| The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great. Author: Abbie Hoffman
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| As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me. Author: Abdul Kalam
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| God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers. Author: Abdul Kalam
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| Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended. Author: Abdul Kalam
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| Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why? Author: Abdul Kalam
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| Great necessities call out great virtues. Author: Abigail Adams
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| Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. Author: Abigail Adams
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| I was a great dreamer of day dreams. Author: Abraham Cahan
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| Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion. Author: Abraham Cowley
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| A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain. Author: Abraham Crowley
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| A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
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| Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God. Author: Abu Bakr
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| Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you. Author: Abu Bakr
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| The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty. Author: Abu Bakr
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| The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah. Author: Abu Bakr
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| There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility. Author: Abu Bakr
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| To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad. Author: Abu Bakr
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| I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth. Author: Ace Frehley
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| One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter. Author: Ace Frehley
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| An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful. Author: Ada Louise Huxtable
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| I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable. Author: Adam Baldwin
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| To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all. Author: Adam Clarke
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| Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs. Author: Adam Duritz
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| The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities. Author: Adam Ferguson
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| I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same. Author: Adam Jones
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| Being on Ozzfest has been a great way for us to break out and show metal fans that we have a heavy side. Author: Adam Rich
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| I have no great urge to be minister of this or minister of that, but instead would feel incredible blessed to have the opportunity to be a champion for a constituency and fight for their cause. Author: Adam Rickitt
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| The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don't believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage. Author: Adam Rickitt
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| I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that. Author: Adam Sandler
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| It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that. Author: Adam Sandler
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| Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine. Author: Adam Schiff
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| But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral. Author: Adam Schiff
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| If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld? Author: Adam Schiff
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| While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equal opportunity to all Americans, we are not yet the beautiful symphony of brotherhood of Dr. King's dream. Author: Adam Schiff
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| Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty. Author: Adam Smith
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| Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition. Author: Adam Smith
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| It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country. Author: Adam Smith
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| No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. Author: Adam Smith
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| Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. Author: Adam Smith
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| The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation. Author: Adam Smith
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| With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches. Author: Adam Smith
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| But I would have executed much greater things, had not government always opposed my exertions, and placed others in situations which would have suited my talents. Author: Adam Weishaupt
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| This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice. Author: Adam Weishaupt
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| When we acknowledge a child's feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he's clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope. Author: Adele Faber
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| The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. Author: Adlai Stevenson
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| All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people. Author: Adolf Hitler
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| Great liars are also great magicians. Author: Adolf Hitler
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| Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election. Author: Adolf Hitler
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| The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. Author: Adolf Hitler
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| The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it. Author: Adolf Hitler
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| For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight. Author: Aeschylus
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| In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house. Author: Aeschylus
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| There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. Author: Aeschylus
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| Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency. Author: Aesop
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| The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. Author: Aesop
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| We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. Author: Aesop
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| Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone. Author: Agnes Macphail
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| It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name. Author: Agnes Macphail
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| Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well. Author: Ahmad Jamal
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| Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe. Author: Ahmed Ben Bella
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| History has proven that the PLO and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around the world. Author: Ahmed Yassin
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| There are perhaps opportunities for greater political cooperation, at least more cooperation than exists now. But there can be no cooperation in the field because every situation is different. Author: Ahmed Yassin
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| Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge. Author: Aime Cesaire
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| It's more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that's good and where the music is used in a really great way. That's the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don't care. Author: Aimee Mann
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| You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the dough, though. But having said that, there's a limit to how much bad music I wanna play. I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn't great. Author: Aimee Mann
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| Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times. Author: Aisha Tyler
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| I have a great story to tell... and I tell it well. No holds barred. Author: Aishwarya Rai
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| There's got to be something greater than us. Author: Ajay Naidu
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| The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country. Author: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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| To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. Author: Akhenaton
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| This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it. Author: Al Capone
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| That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before. Author: Al Jarreau
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| We are just fanatics about using the technology to make it all wonderful. We laughed at the fact that we were having such a great time working this way. Author: Al Jarreau
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