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The evidence that climate change is happening is completely unequivocal... The later governments leave tackling climate change, the harder it will be to combat... The…
— John Beddington
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All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for that thyself also has many…
— Thomas a Kempis
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To learn a new language is, therefore, always a sort of spiritual adventure; it is like a journey of discovery in which we find a…
— Ernst Cassirer
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The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse.
— Groucho Marx
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In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture…
— Thomas Aquinas
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The United States does not have a monopoly on crazy people. It's not the only country that has psychosis. And yet we kill each other…
— Barack Obama
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On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind.
— Benito Mussolini
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I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now? I don't want…
— Jonathan Franzen
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I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see beyond the sort of haze of…
— Arundhati Roy
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I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.
— Mark Twain
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If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely…
— Joan Sutherland
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Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.
— Richard Baxter
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
— William James
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Fashion is such a fairytale and it is such a fantasy. And it's about metamorphosis and sort of changing yourself and playing a part that…
— Marc Jacobs
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Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil.…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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Deep love creates deep fear. It looks like death because the I disappears, the you disappears - and it is a sort of death. And…
— Rajneesh
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If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day…
— Jean Baudrillard
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We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good…
— Lord Byron
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