 One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. Author: A. A. Milne
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| So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on. Author: A. B. Yehoshua
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| Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. Author: A. E. Housman
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| In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I later met Rogers who did some of my early covers and I was impressed with him. Author: A. E. van Vogt
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| It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again. Author: A. E. van Vogt
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| He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. Author: A. J. P. Taylor
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| In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power. Author: A. J. P. Taylor
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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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| Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. Author: A. J. P. Taylor
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| This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade. Author: A. P. Herbert
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| I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. Author: A. Whitney Brown
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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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| Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy. Author: Aaron McGruder
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| Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss. Author: Abba Eban
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| Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow. Author: Abba Eban
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| You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. Author: Abba Eban
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| I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities. Author: Abbe Pierre
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| The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school. Author: Abbe Pierre
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| What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences. Author: Abbe Pierre
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| I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas. Author: Abbey Lincoln
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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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| A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy. Author: Abdoulaye Wade
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| English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese. Author: Abdul Kalam
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| Loneliness is the ultimate poverty. Author: Abigail Van Buren
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| Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last. Author: Abraham Cowley
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| In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'. Author: Abraham Kuyper
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| Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opened up and a lot of blood and many more things came out. Author: Abraham Zapruder
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| I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth. Author: Abu Bakr
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| One thing I love to do is produce. I've produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really happened with 'em, but I enjoy getting a young band into the studio and guiding them, and making them feel at ease. Author: Ace Frehley
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| The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on. Author: Ada Louise Huxtable
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| I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama. Author: Adam Arkin
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| The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies. Author: Adam Arkin
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| The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it. Author: Adam Baldwin
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| You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over. Author: Adam Baldwin
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| Don't get me wrong, some of the mis-informed articles I have read over the last few weeks have been incredibly frustrating, but for my part I fully appreciate the opportunity I have been given and want to grasp it firmly. 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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| With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives, but also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message. Author: Adam Rickitt
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| Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle. Author: Adam Sandler
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| I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that. Author: Adam Sandler
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| The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad. Author: Adam Sandler
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| When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter. 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 it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11. Author: Adam Schiff
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| The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. Author: Adam Smith
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| The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations. 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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| 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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| When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished. Author: Adam Weishaupt
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| How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go. Author: Adam West
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| Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life. Author: Adelaide Anne Procter
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| My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak. Author: Adelbert von Chamisso
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| My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town. Author: Adelbert von Chamisso
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| On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom. Author: Adelbert von Chamisso
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| Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think. 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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| What good fortune for governments that the people do not think. Author: Adolf Hitler
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| At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it. Author: Adolf Loos
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| As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box. Author: Adrian Belew
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| I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article. Author: Adrian Belew
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| Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. Author: Adrian Cronauer
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| It's definitely time to stop. We're getting too old. We both realised that the show wasn't as engaging as it used to be. We were starting to look a bit ridiculous. Author: Adrian Edmondson
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| Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart. Author: Adrian Edmondson
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| I would like just one time to be on the cover of Italian Vogue. Author: Adriana Lima
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| Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. Author: Adrienne Rich
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| The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. Author: Adrienne Rich
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| The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. Author: Aesop
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| There's a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase... When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records. Author: Afrika Bambaataa
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| Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them. Author: Afrika Bambaataa
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| The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Author: Agatha Christie
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| Even God cannot change the past. Author: Agathon
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| The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. Author: Agha Hasan Abedi
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| The churches... have lost much of their authority over youth because they have refused to re-examine their religious sanctions and their dogmatic preaching in the light of modern physiology, psychology and sociology. Author: Agnes E. Meyer
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| Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it. Author: Agnes Macphail
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| It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more. Author: Agnes Repplier
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| The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them. Author: Agnes Repplier
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| If we have only one that can govern, and we chose him... does that mean we're not democratic? Author: Ahmed Ali
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| Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again. Author: Ahmed Ben Bella
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| From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so. Author: Ahmed Ben Bella
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| I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death. Author: Ahmed Ben Bella
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| In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies. Author: Ahmed Ben Bella
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| With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them. Author: Ahmed Ben Bella
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| In the past there was a difference between the conditions in which Hizballah operated in Lebanon and the conditions of resistance operated in Palestine. Author: Ahmed Yassin
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| There are house demolitions and destruction all over the West Bank and Gaza. Just yesterday in Gaza they demolished three towers under the pretext that they were built close to a settlement. Author: Ahmed Yassin
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| I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it. Author: Ahmet Zappa
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