 It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language. Author: A. E. van Vogt
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| All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry. Author: Abbott L. Lowell
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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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| He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness. Author: Abu Bakr
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| He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise. Author: Abu Bakr
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| He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him. Author: Abu Bakr
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| People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think. Author: Adam Arkin
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| I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence. Author: Adam Rickitt
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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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| And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it. Author: Adam Weishaupt
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| An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise. Author: Adolf Hitler
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| Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. Author: Adolf Hitler
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| I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die. Author: Adrian Grenier
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| To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization. Author: Adrienne Clarkson
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| It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into! Author: Agnetha Faltskog
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| It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of. Author: Aimee Mann
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| Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate. Author: Ajay Devgan
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| Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it. Author: Akhenaton
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| The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team. Author: Al Franken
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| A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts. Author: Al Goldstein
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| When Courtney's mother and I first separated I tried to be Disney Dad, showering her with gifts, trips and then I snapped out of it. You don't have to try to impress your kids. If they're not getting what they need from you, they will let you know. Author: Al Roker
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| In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires. Author: Alan Autry
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| To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. Author: Alan Bleasdale
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| An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable. Author: Alan Greenspan
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| If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. Author: Alan King
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| If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some. Author: Alan Perlis
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| The Animals were a very separate and dissonant group at the time. We came from different backgrounds, different areas - we didn't even come from the same town, basically. Author: Alan Price
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| If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly. Author: Alan Watts
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| Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides. Author: Albert Bushnell Hart
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| Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. Author: Albert Camus
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| We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. Author: Albert Camus
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| The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. Author: Albert Einstein
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| I'm not bothered by the paparazzi and I don't feel hemmed in, I've never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn't quite the same attention to celebrities as there is now, but I've never felt that. Author: Albert Finney
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| Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state. Author: Alcee Hastings
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| From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase. Author: Alex Campbell
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| War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. Author: Alexander Berkman
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| Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. Author: Alexander Graham Bell
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| The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog. Author: Alexis Carrel
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| The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters. Author: Alexis Korner
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| The Preparatory Commission held a total of four sessions, the last of which took place just under two years after its creation, from 31 January to 14 February 1967. Author: Alfonso G. Robles
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| One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact. Author: Alfred de Vigny
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| The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art. Author: Alfred Stieglitz
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| I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised. Author: Alfredo Stroessner
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| There was no reason for a revolution in Paraguay. Author: Alfredo Stroessner
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| We can't make any statements here. We can't talk about the internal politics of Paraguay. Author: Alfredo Stroessner
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| It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control. Author: Alice Hamilton
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| If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything. Author: Alicia Machado
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| Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those "others". Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that. Author: Alija Izetbegovic
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| For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me. Author: Alison Bechdel
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| The heart of man is, so to speak, the paradise of God. Author: Alphonsus Liguori
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| War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy. Author: Alva Myrdal
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| War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced. Author: Alva Myrdal
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| Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art. Author: Alvar Aalto
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| We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city. Author: Alvar Aalto
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| I will protect all Colombians regardless of whether the attacks come from guerrillas or paramilitaries. Author: Alvaro Uribe Velez
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| Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. Author: Ambrose Bierce
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| Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. Author: Ambrose Bierce
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| Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. Author: Ambrose Bierce
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| Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. Author: Amelia Earhart
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| We will separate, but we will not quarrel. Author: Amos A. Lawrence
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| Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture. Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
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| War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters. Author: Amy Goodman
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| We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour. Author: Amy Tan
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| It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave. Author: Anatole Broyard
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| A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition. Author: Anatoli Boukreev
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| The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus. Author: Anatoly Chubais
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| I think paranormal experiences are very personal, again, if they are that. Yes, sometimes I've felt that some things I would personally believe enough for me to take action on it... like, you know, I felt something happen in a hotel once that made me never stay there again. Author: Andrea Corr
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| Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name. Author: Andrea Dworkin
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| Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man. Author: Andres Segovia
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| Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! Author: Andrew Carnegie
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| If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword. Author: Andrew Jackson
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| There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone. Author: Andrew Jackson
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| Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding. Author: Andrzej Wajda
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| I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters. Author: Andy Garcia
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| Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office. Author: Anita Diament
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| Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals. Author: Ann Oakley
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| Boyfriends have to understand me and my needs. They have to know what I want out of my life and about my strict regime. I go to bed at 10pm and not later. I separate my professional and private lives. Author: Anna Kournikova
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| Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can. Author: Anne Bancroft
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| Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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| I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin. Author: Anne Tyler
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| It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution. Author: Annie Dillard
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| Respect... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique. Author: Annie Gottlieb
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| I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams. Author: Annie Lennox
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| The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. Author: Ansel Adams
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| The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind. Author: Anthony Holden
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| When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper. Author: Anthony Trollope
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| Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies. Author: Antoine Fuqua
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| There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. Author: Anwar Sadat
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| Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an array of about 200 separating funnels. Author: Archer J. P. Martin
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| At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. Author: Aristotle
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| Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. Author: Arnold Bennett
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| It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. Author: Arnold J. Toynbee
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| If you start becoming withdrawn and looking over your shoulder, being careful about what you say, that's being paranoid. This is an open, accessible team. That's been my trademark for years. Author: Art Modell
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| One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. Author: Arthur Ashe
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| There is a syndrome in sports called "paralysis by analysis." Author: Arthur Ashe
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| We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through. Author: Arthur Boyd
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| Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order. Author: Arthur Helps
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| He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace. Author: Arthur Henderson
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