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There are many resistance movements in the world, like the IRA for instance. But it is only Islamic resistance movements that are… — Ahmed Yassin Copy Share Image
When you see Hitler burning paintings by Salvador Dali and Picasso he's telling you that this time period and these men and… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
It's an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well. For instance, I have to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You truly need to witness me goo-gooing and coo-cooing and making up goofy little songs to glean a full appreciation of how… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
If I may add, for instance, [Martin Luther] King and these others will say that they are fighting for the Negro to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Salman Khan did not help me get movie offers. What rubbish! Will any producer take a risk of millions of rupees at… — Katrina Kaif Copy Share Image
Fighters DON'T know how to jab. You take Roy Jones, for instance. He paws his jab. He throws it out, it don't… — Larry Holmes Copy Share Image
Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings; compassion, in the first instance, is good… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are many instances in which those at the uppermost levels of the White House were feeling the President [Barack Obama] was… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
I fear that, as conditions worsen, many will react to the failures of too much government by calling for even more government.… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
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Time the healer (Time the killer) flies faster here in Rome than anywhere else in the world, I believe ... here in… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature. — Richard A. Proctor Copy Share Image
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