QUOTE WORLD
* The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands
of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.—Gabriel
Zaid
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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most
of us go on to greater things.—Bobby Knight
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Many books require no thought from those who read
them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who
wrote them.—Charles Caleb Colton
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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those
he lives with, insists on boring future generations.—Charles
de Montesquieu
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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than
to write for the public and have no self.—Cyril Connolly
(1903 - 1974)
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Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.—Daphne
du Maurier (1907 - 1989)
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You must keep sending work out; you must never let
a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work
out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent,
you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.—Isaac
Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work...
I want to achieve it through not dying.—Woody Allen
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From the moment I picked up your book until I laid
it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend on reading it.—Groucho
Marx
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One does not find happiness through the pursuit of
achievement, one finds achievement through the pursuit of happiness.—Theki
Rashir
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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside
of a dog it's too dark to read.—Groucho Marx
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To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.—Elbert
Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for
a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor
and attacked a hot fudge sundae.—Kurt Vonnegut
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It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing
down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.—Isabel
Colegate
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I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out
of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.—Frank
Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
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The truth that makes men free is for the most part
the truth which men prefer not to hear.—Herbert Sebastian
Agar (1897-1980)
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It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak, and
another to hear.—Henry David Thoreau (1817-62)
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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded
the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.—Arthur
Conan Doyle (1856-1930)
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Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which
lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.;
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Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.;
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Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic
wit and the person who doesn't get it.;
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The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance
of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.;
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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously
never children.—Bill Watterson
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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors
and several miles away.—Sir Thomas Beecham
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The most likely way for the world to be destroyed,
most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer
professionals. We cause accidents.—Nathaniel Borenstein
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography
until after they're dead.—Samuel Goldwyn
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There are two motives for reading a book: one, that
you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.—Bertrand
Russell
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I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head
away.—Oscar Levant
* America - A Merciless Entropy Running Into Cosmic Annihilation
— Theki Rashir
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered;
the point is to discover them.—Galileo Galilei
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Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will
take care of themselves.—Dorothy Parker
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts
other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.—Al Franken
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An honest politician is one who, when he is bought,
will stay bought.—Simon Cameron
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste
of the American public.—H. L. Mencken
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Exit, pursued by a bear.—William
Shakespeare
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What, you mean I have to rewrite The French Revolution
because somebody threw my manuscript in the fire?—Thomas
Carlyle
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It suddenly occurred to me that the only true bottomless
pit is the human stomach.—Theki Rashir
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If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange
these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have
an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will
have
two ideas.—George Bernard Shaw
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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can
never be accurate because he unconciously translates what he hears into something
he can understand.—Bertrand Russell
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The problem with people who have no vices is that
generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying
virtues.—Elizabeth Taylor
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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of
extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of
Romania.—Dorothy Parker
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The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy
to those who think.—Horace Walpole
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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence
is enough suffering for anyone.—John Ciardi
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Never offend people with style when you can offend
them with substance.—Sam Brown
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A bank is a place that will lend you money if you
can prove that you don't need it.—Bob Hope
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Men of genius do not excel in any profession because
they labor in it but they labor in it because they excel.—William
Hazlitt
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after
it with a club.—Jack London
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The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.—Bret
Harte
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?—Abraham
Lincoln
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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's
buying.— Fran Lebowitz
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Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat,
THAT'S bad for you!— Tommy Smothers
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When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is
necessary not to make a decision.— Lord Falkland
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As I was walking up the stair, I met a man who wasn't
there. He wasn't there again today. I wish, I wish he'd stay away.—
Hughes Mearns
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The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust
him.— Henry Stimson
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack
of character.— Oscar Levant
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I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated
his ability.— Oscar Wilde
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A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't
hear it.— Sir Thomas Beecham
* Mine is the first generation able to contemplate
the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to
war or sending our children to war.”—Tony Blair, speech as newly
elected Prime Minister, 1997.
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A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things
about himself and then says them about other people—Peter
McArthur
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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip—Will_Rogers
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After an access cover has been secured by 16 hold-down
screws, it will be discovered that the gasket has been omitted—De
la Lastra's Corollary
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved
the absolute rejection of authority—Thomas H. Huxley
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered
it a hundred times—Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle
of the night—Philip K. Dick
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It is no coincidence that in no known language does
the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear—Douglas Adams
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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not
to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essense of inhumanity—George
Bernard Shaw
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It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things
that people might remember.—Eugene McCarthy
* Life is in the main a constant process of expectation—mostly
of others by others.—Keith Harris
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Curse Sir Walter Raleigh, he was such a stupid git—John
Lennon
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A man who does not lose his reason over certain things
has none to lose.—Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-81) German
dramatist. Emilia Galotti, IV:7
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Fish fuck in it.—W. C. Fields'
reason for not drinking water.
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Those who don't like those who like to know have
something to hide.—Theki Rashir
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He might have been a wrong'un but he was a writer.—Betsy
Ann Cook speaking about Keith Harris
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Rejection slips are like colds; everybody gets them.—Norman
Hidden
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If you deliberately plan to be less than you are
capable of being, then I warn you that you will be deeply unhappy for the rest
of your life.—Abraham Maslow
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The truth is the truth as we perceive it but that
truth to another may be a lie.—Theki Rashir
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It it doesn't get worse it will get better. If it
doesn't get better it will get worse. If it does neither it will stay the same.—Theki
Rashir
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Those who are satisfied do not understand freedom.—Theki
Rashir
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At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human
stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice
and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous
or
political ideas.—Aldous Huxley
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If we were to wake up some morning and find that
everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause
for prejudice by noon.—George Aiken
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We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement
of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.—George
Orwell
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The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities
committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing
about them.—George Orwell
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An evil exists that threatens every man,woman, and
child of this great country. We must take steps to insure our domestic security
and protect our Homeland.—Adolf Hitler (1933)
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Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism
because it is a merger of State and corporate power.—Benito
Mussolini
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Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take
your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your
Honor. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America
by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and
shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.—Mark
Twain
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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy
of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government
to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.—Thomas
Jefferson
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The welfare of the people in particular has always
been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving
the servants of tyranny a good conscience.—Albert Camus (1913-1960)
* Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society
must somehow make sense. The thought that The State has lost its mind
and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence
has to
be internally denied.—Arthur Miller–playwright
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No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war
except by lies.—Salvador de Madariaga - (1886-1978 ), Spanish
writer, diplomat, and historian, noted for his service at the League of Nations
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People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient
extent ... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector
enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today.—John
Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations
as between neighbor citizens. A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders
in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great
gang.—Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Vaughan, 14 March 1785
(B 11:16-7)
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If... the machine of government... is of such a nature
that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say,
break the law.—Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobediance,
1849
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Each man must for himself alone decide what is right
and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk
this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified
and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label
you as they may.—Mark Twain
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We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler
did in Germany was 'legal. and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did
in Hungary was 'illegal'.—Martin Luther King, Jr., 'Letter
from Birmingham Jail,' Why We Can't Wait',1963
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you
have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail
of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate
your neutrality.—Bishop Desmond Tutu
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Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor. - infidel
to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that
oppresses the people.—Wendell Phillips
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The possession of unlimited power will make a despot
of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature
that walks.—Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) Source: Ponkapog Papers,
1903
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Now those who seek absolute power, even though they
seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce
their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very
ones who always create the most hellish tyranny.—Barry Goldwater
(1909-1998) US Senator (R-Arizona) Source: Senator Goldwater's Acceptance Speech
at the Republican National Convention, 1964
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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of
convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that
do.—William Blake
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No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer
to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises
of the civil authority:—Thomas Jefferson: American 3rd US President
(1801-09).
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If a government supports the use of force, weapons,
violence as a method of control and dominance, this models and gives license
to the same kind of behavior at home:—V-Day Founder/Artistic
Director Eve Ensler.
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Justify yourself to no-one but God:—Theki
Rashir
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Listen to no man above God:—Theki
Rashir
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The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have
been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but
nobody talks about them.—Harold Pinter
* I am not in the world to sacrifice my time to satisfy
someone else’s greed. I am here to live my own life, free of
the encumbrance of those with selfish aim:—Theki Rashir
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Just because its the way it: is doesn't mean its
right.—Theki Rashir
* If you are not for the revolution you are not for
freedom—you are for your own status quo above others.—Theki
Rashir
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E=[MC]2=Life x Death—Theki
Rashir
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.—Oscar Wilde
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In an equal world all are entitled to free expression
of opinion.—Theki Rashir
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The purpose of life is to learn the purpose of life.anon
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In Heaven the Engineers are German, the Police are
English and the Chefs are French. In Hell The Engineers are French,
The Police are German and the Chefs are English..Unknown
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It is better to regard others as significant than
to pursue self-idolatry.—Theki Rashir
* If you want someone to do wrong
for you, first convince them that they are doing right.—Theki Rashir
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You can't dominate me, you can't control me, you
can't defeat me, all you can do is enjoy me.—Theki Rashir
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Social laws exist for one purpose alone: protecting
the interests of the wealthy elite.—Theki Rashir
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People who take without giving know nothing of life.—Theki
Rashir
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Those who feel threatened by the truth deny themselves
the opportunity of learning..—Theki Rashir
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The first thing I thought about this morning was
that I survived another night without being eaten by dogs.—Theki
Rashir
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What the world needs is more geniuses with humility,
there are so few of us left—Oscar Levant
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I find television very educating. Every time somebody
turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.—Groucho
Marx
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The way to wisdom is the path of a fool—Theki
Rashir
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God nuked Sodom and Gomorrah and also said I am
a jealous God—Theki Rashir
* Those in power and privilege will go to any lengths
to prevent or silence those who in any way, small or large, threatens to
expose the nature of their continued rule—Roy Ratcliffe, commenting
on the Julian Assange case
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