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Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
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The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and…
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In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
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If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that…
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,…
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled…
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads…
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Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred…
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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
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American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale…
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I believe I have a calling. Do you know what that calling is? To stand up in a new and hard core,…
— Stephen Baldwin
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Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove…
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is…
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We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but…
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I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to…
— Tony Campolo
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Opportunity shies away from need, but opportunity is attracted by talent and ability. What you don't want to happen is opportunity to…
— Jim Rohn
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Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and…
— Adam Schiff
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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
— John Milton
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[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes,…
— Anton Chekhov
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or…
— Alexander Pope
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek…
— Seneca the Younger
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