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The main points were: one, the amount of Israel's nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA.… — Mordechai Vanunu
I thought of the infinitely many points that can divide the space between two human hearts. — Daniel Tammet
Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by… — George Bernard Shaw
War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of… — H.G. Wells
Meditate on your own and refine your consciousness. Tighten up your life. Constantly examine your life and look for weak points. You know what's going… — Frederick Lenz
Another cultural thing that's really creepy. It's not like in the '60s, where there were definitely great high points of creativity where people were trying… — J. Robbins
Artists see the world in a very different way than everyone else, and it's important when the artist points a lens at the law. — Thane Rosenbaum
In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please… — Jonathan Swift
Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law. — Jonathan Swift
Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than… — Samuel Johnson
A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. — Thomas Tusser
And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than by… — John Dryden
Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork... They run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that points… — Elizabeth Bowen
Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long… — Oliver Goldsmith
Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. — John Keats
You don't know how to take off your suit of armor. You have no idea how to conduct yourself without the reference point of your… — Chogyam Trungpa
Man..must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being..And, consequently, as man depends absolutely upon his Maker… — William Blackstone
The moving toward one's inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but impels him on… — Ben Shahn
Doing work points the way to new and better work to be done. — Julia Cameron
There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only… — Lafcadio Hearn

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