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Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier… — Edward Abbey
The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning. — Edward Abbey
Those were the days in this country where H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw and Conan Doyle could have influence, and thats gone, thats true. But… — Julian Barnes
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people… — Zadie Smith
The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of… — Thomas Jefferson
It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men… — Alexis de Tocqueville
If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to feeling and indeed… — Thomas Jefferson
I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or… — Benjamin Franklin
I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any… — Thomas Paine
There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any harder… — Annie Leibovitz
C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried to… — Robert Adams
To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going… — Phil Collins
Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of… — Kurt Vonnegut
I don't believe in government. I hate politics. I'm against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government,… — Ray Bradbury
One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy,… — Sigmund Freud
I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be… — Adam Duritz
I sound awful saying it but I think it can be like that. I see a lot of people in unstimulating relationships. And not just… — Laura Marling
Place three individuals in a situation wherein the interest of each depends on the voice of the others, and give to two of them an… — James Madison
The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by those who were… — James Madison
The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be… — James Madison
In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less. — Carrie Chapman Catt
More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control. — Margaret Sanger
Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out… — Margaret Sanger
All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord for… — Samuel Gompers
As long as this great army of workers is scattered among so many craft unions, it will be impossible for them to unite and act… — Eugene V. Debs

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