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My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn’t always discuss for reasons… — Shirley Chisholm
There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time. — Edward Abbey
Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness. — Charles Dickens
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use… — Chinua Achebe
In foreign countries they fear baldness. They are so rich in foreign countries, they can afford to fear all kinds of silly things. — Rohinton Mistry
Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Body', 'soul', and 'spirit' may designate phenomenal domains which can be detached as themes for definite investigations; within certain limits their ontological indefiniteness may not… — Martin Heidegger
I love chess, and I didnt invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old… — Bobby Fischer
In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity. — Jane Jacobs
I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds -- some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even… — Malcolm X
But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is… — Clarence Thomas
There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what… — Herman Cain
New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of traditional… — Wynton Marsalis
These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular… — Alain Badiou
That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl… — Brian De Palma
The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved. — Alan Furst
In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere… — Bill Laswell
As for my voice, it cannot be categorized-and I like it that way, because I sing things that would be considered in the dramatic, mezzo… — Jessye Norman
Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds… — Wes Anderson
The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and… — John Dos Passos
There's too many people that paint with a broad brush that we're all corrupt, we're all amoral. … And having these kinds of things happen,… — John Ensign
There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African underTutustanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as… — Desmond Tutu
There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse. — Umberto Eco

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