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To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion…

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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines…
Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a…
We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes…
The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand…
Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have…
Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments…
I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of…
The supply of government exceeds demand.
A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the…
The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations…
The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a…
Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity.…

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Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck… — Charlotte Bronte
I am continually amazed by the credence given to religious claims in the intellectual community; and, as a human being, i am… — George H. Smith
Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together. — Jean-Paul Sartre
To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a… — Lewis H. Lapham
The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a… — Siri Hustvedt
It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is. — Rob Bell
It often takes the darkness of a storm to show us the light of God's presence. — Tony Evans
If you travel a lot, if you like roaming about in order to lose yourself, you can end up in the strangest… — Wim Wenders
Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of… — Charles Baudelaire
I often find during a day of shooting I will speak in an American accent all day long when I'm doing dialogue.… — Henry Cavill
It often takes catching a glimpse of how our life would be without something that's valuable to us for us to realize… — Hal Elrod
It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with… — Richard Schmid

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