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I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I… — Michael Richards
I look in a right of property - on the right of individuals, to have and to own, for their own separate and selfish use… — Thomas Hodgskin
Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed,… — Epictetus
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute… — Oscar Wilde
The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner… — Mark Twain
Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and defections… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Young children possess the ability to cut across the customary categories; to appreciate usually undiscerned links among realms, to respond effectively in a parallel manner… — Howard Gardner
I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons… — Francois Rabelais
How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as… — Samuel Johnson
I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing… — Dean Acheson
Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear manner toward an… — Barbara Marx Hubbard
The best tournament that I have ever played in was in 1950. It was great - a waiter came to you during the game, and… — Boris Spassky
The practice of patience guards us against losing our presence of mind. It enables us to remain undisturbed, even when the situation is really difficult.… — Dalai Lama
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is… — Edward Albee
The gentleman has nine cares. In seeing he is careful to see clearly; in hearing he is careful to hear distinctly; in his looks he… — Confucius
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them in particular, what we compare them… — Christian Nestell Bovee
I surrender this rifle to you through my young son, whom I now desire to teach in this manner that he has become a friend… — Sitting Bull
I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for… — Brendan Fraser
If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or… — Howard Staunton
There is no sweeter manner of living in the world than continuous communion with God. — Brother Lawrence
There is a First Amendment right to speak in a encrypted way.... The right to speak P.G.P. is like the right to speak Navajo. The… — Eben Moglen
What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women. The capitalists speculate… — Clara Zetkin
There in the midst of German life is an alien and isolated race of men. Loud and self-conscious in their dress, hot-blooded and restless in… — Walther Rathenau
Participation in the dance was entirely voluntary, a mental vow to worship the Mystery in this manner being expressed by a man ardently desiring the… — Edward S. Curtis
To celebrate a festival means: to live out, for some special occasion and in an uncommon manner, the universal assent to the world as a… — Josef Pieper

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