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It's important as a writer to do my art well and do it in a way that is powerful and beautiful and meaningful, so that… — Joy Harjo
Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and… — Lord Chesterfield
Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a… — Maria von Trapp
One thought spectra are marvellous, but it is not possible to make progress there. Just as if you have the wing of a butterfly then… — Niels Bohr
And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England. — Jill Dando
When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this… — Simone Weil
Certainly I shall use the police, and most ruthlessly, whenever the German people are hurt. But I refuse the notion that the police are protective… — Hermann Goring
My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the… — Steven Morrissey
Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excesses, as… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
I would guess that it might have made a difference. It certainly didn't hurt us in any way. Feng shui creates a balance that I… — Donald Trump
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor… — Bertolt Brecht
Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer. — Donald Rumsfeld
Youth, though it may lack knowledge, is certainly not devoid of intelligence; it sees through shams with sharp and terrible eyes. — H. L. Mencken
No, there's no God, but there might be some sort of an organizing intelligence, and I think to understand it is way beyond our ability.… — George Carlin
I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will… — Amory Lovins
I always took my role as a leader, and certainly chairman and CEO of a major company very seriously as to our employees and trying… — Kenneth Lay
It's often said that you learn more from defeat than victory and the RNC has certainly taken that to heart. After difficult losses in 2012,… — Alice Stewart
In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are complete bastards, nasty, twisted, deeply… — George R. R. Martin
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of… — Samuel Johnson
By temperament I am not unduly excitable and certainly not trigger-happy. I think twice before I shoot and very often do not shoot at all.… — Bill Brandt

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