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We get used to a certain kind of colour of form or format, and it's acceptable. And to puncture that is sticking your neck out… — Lee Krasner
There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force — John Keegan
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic… — Carl Schmitt
For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it's… — Scarlett Thomas
A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if hes any good,… — Michael Cunningham
I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city. — Orhan Pamuk
There is only the constant knowledge and enjoyment of the Heart, moment to moment, through the instant of all conditions of appearance and disappearance. Of… — Adi Da
The earth moves in a certain rhythm, a certain sound, a certain note. When the music stops the earth will stop and everything upon it… — Sun Ra
Iâ€™d rather be around a passionate nerd than a non-passionate cool person. Because if you lack passion, your soul is diminishing by the second. You… — Matt Cohen
The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and… — Adelaide Anne Procter
I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain… — Christopher Columbus
And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I… — Christiane Amanpour
One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second,… — Charles Ives
It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain… — Joseph Glanvill
That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in… — Joseph Glanvill
I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again.… — Kim Ki-duk
There are only certain intervals of time when life of any sort is possible in an expanding universe and we can practise astronomy only during… — John D. Barrow
I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find… — Fred Hoyle
We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration. — Brian Greene
Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under… — Siri Hustvedt

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