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The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation… — George Orwell
It is a terrible, an inexorable law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim,… — James A. Baldwin
I've never wanted to grow up too fast. I wanted to wear a sports bra until I was 22! ... The allure of being sexy… — Emma Watson
It's all a terrible tragedy. And yet, in it's details, it's great fun. And - apart from the tragedy - I've never felt happier or… — Rupert Brooke
No, not really. I mean, at the end of the day, it's just a part. You just go into it, and like your life, you're… — Robert Pattinson
Youth, though it may lack knowledge, is certainly not devoid of intelligence; it sees through shams with sharp and terrible eyes. — H. L. Mencken
A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range from the atomic explosion but… — Paul Tibbets
Most of us tend to view childhood as a time of carefree pleasure. Those of us who have looked at the real condition of children… — Richard Farson
There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you,… — Robert E. Lee
If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference. — Robin Williams
To write good SF today...you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the strange and terrible… — Gardner Dozois
There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and I suddenly see… — Eudora Welty
A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves-these… — Barbara Kingsolver
The weaker the player the more terrible the Knight is to him, but as a player increases in strength the value of the Bishop becomes… — Jose Raul Capablanca
But the thing that was great about Capablanca was that he really spoke his mind, he said what he believed was true, he said what… — Bobby Fischer
Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really… — Siegbert Tarrasch
Every year it changes, sometimes I'm good at the 50m, sometimes I'm terrible, it really depends. I'm still not sure what my best event is. — Tera Van Beilen
If wine disappeared from human production, I believe there would be, in the health and intellect of the planet, a void, a deficiency far more… — Charles Baudelaire
Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be… — John Dean
But the involuntary tricks of memory and the voluntary ones of imagination make always such terrible havoc of facts that truth, be it ever so… — Unknown Author
It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Our paradigm now seems to be: Something terrible happened to us on September 11, and that gives us the right to interpret all future events… — William J. Clinton
The situation of the Salvadorian people is terrible; all their rights are violated. There is a direct violation against the human person, a violation of… — Maria Julia Hernandez
Our crimes, for which we are responsible: as taxpayers, for failing to provide massive reparations, for granting refuge and immunity to the perpetrators, and for… — Noam Chomsky
Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have produced long-since a… — Al Gore

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