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Call immediately. Time is running out. We both need to do something monstrous before we die. — Ralph Steadman
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the… — Max Lerner
And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to… — Georges Bernanos
What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval. — Mark Twain
A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and… — Henry David Thoreau
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions.… — Oscar Wilde
My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about… — John Keats
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone.… — Andrea Dworkin
I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is… — Isobel Miller Kuhn
If you don't have a definite call to stay here, you are called to go. — Keith Green
It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable...Make up new names for them.… — Robbie Robertson
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an… — Duke Ellington
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine… — Cole Porter
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an… — Duke Ellington
It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. ... Make up new names… — Robbie Robertson
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty. — Fisher Ames
So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride - the temptation blithely to declare yourselves… — Ronald Reagan
Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of… — Samuel Johnson
What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other… — Henry David Thoreau
"It is against their own insoluble problem of being human that the dull and base in humanity are in revolt in anti-Semitism. Judaism, nevertheless, together… — Hermann Rauschning

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