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How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I decided I was a feminist and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular…
— Emma Watson
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I am tired of the superficial smiles that adorn the many ghouls among us. I am tired of the righteous indignation that hides beneath those…
— Corey Taylor
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African-American women who develop breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease than White women of the same age. Survival rates are worse…
— Frank C. Garland
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For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules, grammatical…
— Bill Bryson
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Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that…
— Fran Lebowitz
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This is a wonderful time to be living here on earth. Our opportunities are limitless. While there are some things wrong in the world today,…
— Thomas S. Monson
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people
— Susan B. Anthony
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No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early marriages, among the…
— Thomas Malthus
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I have at all times tried to use my influence toward protecting the property holders and substantial men of the country from thieves, outlaws and…
— Clay Allison
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I believe it is important to go on insisting that normality is not what we are exposed to. Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no…
— Kate Winslet
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The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!
— Emanuel Lasker
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Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play…
— Bobby Fischer
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Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's cone of vision,…
— John Szarkowski
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Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art…
— Susan Sontag
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Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.
— Robert Adams
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Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.
— James Monroe
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Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline.
— Scott Belsky
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If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly,…
— Mikhail Botvinnik
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Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal…
— Unknown Author
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Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide…
— Mark Twain
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What is more insane than to be partakers of the Sacraments of the Lord and not partakers of the words of the Lord? These men…
— Saint Augustine
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Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of the very rottenness…
— Saint Augustine
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