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Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them. — Richard Wagner
I'm a real Londoner. We have very grey weather in London, and I think it encourages a very eclectic and crazy fashion sense. I mix… — Emma Watson
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never… — Elie Wiesel
Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining… — Thomas Paine
You seize your freedom in a spirit of rebelliousness, exuberance, defiant joy. But to live that choice -- over the weeks and months and years… — Brian Morton
How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look… — Antonin Artaud
..And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the poor, even as… — Michael Eric Dyson
Oh I believe in loving cats and dogs and children and parents – sometimes – but I don’t believe in romantic love. Of course, there’s… — Amy Jenkins
Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina… — Pat Conroy
A child should never even think about being a "good son." A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages that. Not the… — Bret Easton Ellis
One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold… — John O'Donohue
What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the… — Peggy Noonan
An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely. — Paulo Coelho
...the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry... — Billy Collins
Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead of dwelling on… — Margaret Atwood
American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy,… — Philip Roth
Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and spice and everything nice, which encourages them not… — Sarah Dessen
I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I… — John Connolly
Such movies are always a danger...falling in love is something most adults have actually experienced...The theme is universal and encourages...unhealthy comparisons...why can't our lives be… — David Sedaris
Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man… — Thomas Hardy
I don't hold with paddlin' with the occult," said Granny firmly. "Once you start paddlin' with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when… — Terry Pratchett
No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it… — Janice Galloway
Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're… — Ethan Hawke
People forget they have options. And they forget that those things don't really matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they… — Cecelia Ahern
The worst thing about affirmative action is that it encourages reverse discrimination, so-called because it goes in the opposite way of how we naturally discriminate. — Stephen Colbert

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