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Hope's Folly is a rapid-fire romp through futuristic political intrigue and high-risk passion The tug of war between decorum and passion keeps the romantic intrigue… — Philip K. Jason
The struggle for justice should never be abandoned because of the apparent overwhelming power of those who seem invincible in their determination to hold on… — Howard Zinn
To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be… — Tom Stoppard
What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the… — Alexander Pope
Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time. — Martin Amis
An expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into the composition of… — Marshall McLuhan
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the… — Octavio Paz
Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from… — Blaise Pascal
Calculating people are contemptable. The reason for this is that calculation deals with loss and gain, and the loss and gain mind never stops. Death… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
FranÃ§oise could not help taking a surreptitious glance at XaviÃ¨re: she gave a start of amazement. XaviÃ¨re was no longer watching, her head was lowered.… — Simone de Beauvoir
I'm the best now Anybody wit some money should invest now — Nicki Minaj
I was in them million dollar meetings, he was cheatin. All up in the church, he was sneakin wit the deacon. — Nicki Minaj
Anyway Ri Ri what rhymes wit your name really? Money got you vacationing in Chile — Nicki Minaj
On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dÃ©pens de sa mÃ©moire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory). — Alain-Rene Lesage
But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in… — William H. Seward
Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits… — Edward Dahlberg
Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon — Tony Blair
If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty. — Benjamin Franklin
Did I, my lines intend for public view,How many censures, would their faults pursue,Some would, because such words they do affect,Cry they're insipid, empty, uncorrect.And… — Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
What I wanted to do was slap him down a bit with wit and words. Grammar and vocabulary as a weapon. But what kind of… — Charles Frazier

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