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910 quotes by 779 authors
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The Republican and Democratic parties both feed out of the same bag provided by the monied system, and where the list frequently differs the same…
— George Seldes
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Madame Lefoux accepted a cup of tea and sat on another little settee, next to the relocated calico cat. The cat clearly believed Madame Lefoux…
— Gail Carriger
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He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
— Oscar Wilde
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The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did bird imitations…repeatedly, and…
— Daniel Handler
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he asked if i wouldn't like to live completely without problems, say in greece maybe, nice climate, everything provided? i say: "when we find out…
— William S. Burroughs
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How will we get back up?" I worried. "I have a different route in mind for our return trip." "Does it involve stairs?" I asked…
— Karen Marie Moning
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The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his…
— Ayn Rand
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Even the evil-looking bird perched on a rod in the bar had stopped screeching out the names and addresses of local contract killers, which was…
— Douglas Adams
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For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Exactly. You can shoulder all the blame and become a martyr. Provided anyone knows what or who you're martyring for. Or you can accept that…
— Maria V. Snyder
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Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that destroys Panem," he…
— Suzanne Collins
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If you taught me to read and provided for me the same computer system as someone has provided for Stephen Hawking, I, too, would write…
— Garth Stein
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If we constantly focus on the stones in our mortal path, we will almost surely miss the beautiful flower or cool stream provided by a…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another…
— Clifton Fadiman
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My fear represented the failure of the human system. It is a sad truth of our creation: Something is amiss in our design, there are…
— Steve Martin
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What makes you a real girl or boy is that no one laughs at you. If you are imitation or unreal, the rules give you…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.
— Terry Pratchett
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Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds…
— Alain de Botton
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Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.
— Cassandra Clare
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The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some…
— B.F. Skinner
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