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Their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day comes when the anger and frustration of the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I grinned at him. 'Jealous?' He grinned right back. 'That's a trick question. If I say yes you'll accuse me of being… — Carrie Vaughn Copy Share Image
I decided to have a regular childhood and not pursue [acting] until I left school, although I wrote plays, directed plays, and… — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
Whatever your woman is into, you better be into. Whatever your man is into, you better be N2. Your partner into church,… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
I have always seen myself as an athlete. Of course, I made the mistake of unintentionally opening the door to my private… — Oliver Kahn Copy Share Image
Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at… — Clare Balding Copy Share Image
Let's be honest. You let yourself be pulled in because it felt good to be wanted, needed. But then it went too… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
I open a paperclip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Oak... lasts for an unlimited period when buried in underground structures... when exposed to moisture... it cannot take in liquid on account… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
We have found ourselves in the period of "interregnum": the old works no more, the new is not yet born. But the… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of… — Horace Copy Share Image
I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
a revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting,… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
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Except even at the start, when we were in that can't-get-enough-of-you-phase, there was like some invisible wall between us. At first I… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
You don't see Los Angeles erecting a museum dedicated to the birth place of the Crips and the Bloods and the Mexican… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
Pecans are not cheap, my hons. In fact, in the South, the street value of shelled pecans just before holiday baking season… — Celia Rivenbark Copy Share Image
Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . .… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream, have… — Sheng-yen Copy Share Image
I get asked to do benefits a lot and I've decided I've got to be a bit more discerning, I can't just… — Laura Kightlinger Copy Share Image
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And this Atlantean Destroyer is now leading the Daimons and sending them out to battle against Acheron, who is just using us… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I always make it a rule to let the other fellow fire first. If a man wants to fight, I argue the… — Ben Thompson Copy Share Image
Clap! Snap! the black crack! Grip, grab! Pinch, nab! And down down to Goblin-town You go, my lad! Clash, crash! Crush, smash!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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When Arnold Schwarzenegger goes to his reward - how's that? That's a crack, but I treat Governor Schwarzenegger well in my book.… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
Engineering, like poetry, is an attempt to approach perfection. And engineers, like poets, are seldom completely satisfied with their creations. They notice,… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
My hope is that feminist, racial justice, reproductive rights and LGBT movements build a coalition that centers on the lives of women… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist,… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
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With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
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