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• Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.

  Roland Barthes

  Pain, Literature, Choke

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• I believe in positive despotism. That means an exchange between people. I'm thinking about the fact that someone serves me breakfast in my bed. I can not see anything wrong in that. Because everything is a question of exchanges between people. Everyone has some specific possibilities and can to a certain extent do whatever they want. If one wants to become rich one can study economy and if one wants to be poor one can choose to become a professor in butterfly wings for example. So we can choose.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Believe, Butterfly, Mean

  Source: sturm-lie.be

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• White people, you did not get a receipt for niggas, you can not return us!

  Katt Williams

  Funny, Humor, White

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• I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

  Elton John

  Beautiful, Garden, Two

  "Elton John Interview GNOMEO AND JULIET". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 7, 2011.

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• Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.

  Thierry Henry

  Hurt, Sleep, Past

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• You have to use what you have in order to get what you need and the people can not be rich unless somebody is rich. The Hip-Hop generation has carried more people with it than any other enterprise Black Americans have had.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Order, People, Hip Hop

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• Meddling, smug, stupid little..." "She likes me! They always play hard to get when they like me!" "No. You do not understand. I could not have done it because I can not read or write.

  Darren Shan

  Stupid, Writing, Play

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• As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

  Michael Haneke

  Film, Parody, Genre

  "Decade: Michael Haneke Talks 'Code Inconnu' and 'The Piano Teacher'". www.indiewire.com. December 8, 2009.

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• When you find yourself talking about less and less and forgetting the love that you bring, never forget there are things you can replace but others you can not.

  Bill Walton

  Talking, Finding Yourself, Never Forget

  Source: www.theruggedmale.com

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• I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

  Lord Hailsham

  Expression, Democracy, Regard

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• Your culture demands that you bring some kind of crisis to your work and therefore you can not bring any unity to it. In order to bring crisis into your work you have to bring it to a state of expectancy. In other words you have to leave your work in the state of mind of being a question.

  Milton Resnick

  Order, Unity, Mind

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• Things that matter in this life can not be bought. Friends, truth, and a passion for life.

  Chris Shays

  Passion, Matter, This Life

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• Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a Country. As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes & effects providence punishes national sins, by national calamities.

  George Mason

  Country, Tyrants, Heaven

  "The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September, 1787", Volume 2, as recorded by James Madison, 1908.

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• I have looked at so many photographs, I can not see them anymore.

  Michael Heizer

  Photograph, I Can

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• The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.

  John Dewey

  Children, Self, Expression

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• If a theory can not be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Theory, Ifs

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• I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.

  William Baziotes

  Painting, Theory, Concrete

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• Castilian Spanish-speaking Spain is big, but is bigger in addition with Catalonian-speaking Spain, Galician-speaking Spain and Basque-speaking Spain. Democratic Spain, Constitutional Spain, can not be separated from diversity and the respect to the citizenship.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Diversity, Spain, Citizenship

  Speech in the French National Assembly, March 2005.

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• Users are innocent for they can not really make sure if their information is safe or not.

  Ma Huateng

  Safe, Information, Innocent

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• I made the decision I will own my own show. So never again will I ever be told what I can and can not do.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Decision, Made, Shows

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.

  Lucy Stone

  Sight, Hands, Gains

  "Woman Suffrage", Vol. 4 by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper, 1902.

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• My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its light can not be put out. Because it is the light of nature - the Mother of all that is valuable in poetry - painting or anything else... my execution annoys most of them and all the scholastic ones - perhaps the scarifies I make for 'lightness' and 'brightness' is too much but these things are the essence of Landscape.

  John Constable

  Mother, Light, Essence

  "Constable". Book by Conal Shields, p. 288. Letter to Rev. John Fisher (1824), 1993.

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• About what one can not speak, one must remain silent.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Speak, Silent

  "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1922.

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• Everyday I become more convinced, there is no doubt in my mind, and as many intellectuals have said, that it is necessary to transcend capitalism. But capitalism can't be transcended from with capitalism itself, but through socialism, true socialism, with equality and justice. I'm also convinced that it is possible to do it under democracy, but not in the type of democracy being imposed by Washington.

  Hugo Chavez

  Justice, Doubt, Everyday

  "Venezuela’s Chavez Closes World Social Forum with Call to Transcend Capitalism". Hugo Chavez's closing speech at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, venezuelanalysis.com. January 31, 2005.

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• Pride is not a word or sentiment I can ascribe to anything I have done or do. As far as regret, it is a luxury I can not afford. Anything I did, that was bad or wrong or regretful, I stand accused, I am guilty and I'm ready to serve my time.

  Henry Rollins

  Regret, Pride, Luxury

  "Henry Rollins - Recountdown Tour 2008 Update". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2008.

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