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Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
— Ambrose Bierce
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For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.
— Kathryn Bigelow
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All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
— Theodor Adorno
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must…
— Theodore Bikel
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Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.
— Theodore Bikel
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Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek…
— Steven Biko
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The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the…
— Steven Biko
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Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
— Buffalo Bill
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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose…
— Buffalo Bill
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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
— Josh Billings
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Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
— Josh Billings
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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own…
— Josh Billings
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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I…
— Josh Billings
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Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
— Josh Billings
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The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
— Theodor Adorno
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Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
— Theodor Adorno
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If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is…
— Theodor Adorno
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
— Larry Bird
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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better…
— Larry Bird
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