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Risk is relative. And relative to the imminent planetary 'game over' neon sign that's starting to flicker above our children's heads, just as they are… — Dave Hampton
I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts. — Charles Rosin
What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry. — Lord Byron
We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise. — Natalie Clifford Barney
I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces… — William S. Burroughs
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it! — Philibert Joseph Roux
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect… — John Donne
Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life… — Oscar Wilde
We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck. — Elizabeth Bibesco
There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen,… — Hippocrates
Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine… — Robert Browning
I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness - that darkness flung me - Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes… — Randall Jarrell
Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it. — P.G. Wodehouse
To finally get that call from the doctor that you're pregnant and you're having a baby.... It was just another world. — Giuliana Rancic
What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism — Paul de Man
Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity. — Edward Abbey
Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get… — Edward Abbey
What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most. — Edward Abbey
And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is transient as all… — Zadie Smith
On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time - show that… — Katrina vanden Heuvel
If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice… — Thomas Jefferson
But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate… — Thomas Jefferson
The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any… — George Washington
Call to mind the sentiments which nature has engraved on the heart of every citizen, and which take a new force when they are solemnly… — Thomas Paine
The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things. And, incomprehensibly difficult… — Thomas Paine

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