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The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
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Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.
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The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity,…
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His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
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I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.
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The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as…
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book…
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If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a…
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It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.
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If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
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In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after…
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I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety:…
— Edmund Wilson
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Because on some level, even though it never turns out to be true, and even though I should know better, I still…
— E. Lockhart
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It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university…
— Tony Benn
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Many bought into the idea that America could go from a technology-based, export-oriented powerhouse to a services-led, consumption-based economy - and somehow…
— Jeffrey R. Immelt
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Men often still expect women to be under their thumb.
— Guy Pearce
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Oh you really still expect me to believe every single letter I receive. Sorry you what a shameful situation, sending shivers up…
— Erasure
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Focus on who still stands beside you at the end of it all, not on the ones that walked off and still…
— Beeru Singh
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We cannot simply accept that part of the scripture we like, and reject what we don't like, and still expect to get…
— Unknown Author
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Seven complicated facts about Women: 1. They believe in saving. 2. Believe in saving but buy expensive clothes. 3. Buy expensive clothes…
— Maria Rivera
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