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Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what… — Malcolm Bradbury
The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for — Tony Blair
Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you. — Issey Miyake
Most problems precisely defined are already partially solved. — Harry Lorayne
Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on myths of progress,… — Frantz Fanon
There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely because… — Charles J. Shields
From the ethical point of view, no one can escape responsibility with the excuse that he is only an individual, on whom the fate of… — Gyorgy Lukacs
Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions… — Bill Viola
And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels… — Cornel West
The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper. — Cornel West
The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened. — Stephen Walt
Insider trading tells everybody at precisely the wrong time that everything is rigged, and only people who have a billion dollars and have access to… — Preet Bharara
It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our… — William J. Brennan
...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all. — Saint John Chrysostom
This is a key point which the secularists are missing: they think that stressing God's mercy means that sins are no longer sins. On the… — Thomas J. Paprocki
Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than… — Richard John Neuhaus
Ninety percent of our police are fighting terrorists, so we don't have enough oriented towards their key duty, which is enforcement of the law. But… — Ashraf Ghani
Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about. — Georges Braque
The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in the general population.… — Thomas Sowell

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