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When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful. — Edward Abbey
There is a wine called Easy Days and Mellow Nights, well-known on the outskirts of the Navajo reservation. It is an economical wine, fortified with… — Edward Abbey
All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience! — Edward Abbey
I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who… — Martin Amis
The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the… — Henry Adams
Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I… — George Orwell
For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can… — George Washington
By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity, drunkenness… — Margaret Sanger
The most serious charge that can be brought against modern benevolence is that it encourages the perpetuation of defectives, delinquents and dependents. These are the… — Margaret Sanger
My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an… — Lincoln Steffens
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of… — Chinua Achebe
The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election. — Abhisit Vejjajiva
From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious… — Polybius
There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by the end of… — John F. Kennedy
Life is just a bowl of cherries, don't take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and… — Bob Fosse
If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is… — Leo Tolstoy
If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of… — Mike Huckabee
It's kind of like sentencing. A lot of people say that we have a heavy sentence for this crime and a light sentence for another… — Rush Limbaugh
Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims. — Wesley Clark
There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel. — Zbigniew Brzezinski
The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast, an author must be more… — Alfred Bester
We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research. — Wilhelm Steinitz
Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to… — Garry Kasparov
Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims,… — Vladimir Kramnik

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