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• In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.

  Mika

  Song, Character, Attention

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There was a time - and I used to get made fun of a lot - that all I collected was soundtracks

  Jason Marsden

  Fun, Soundtracks, Made

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• When an individual passes from one period of life to another a time comes when he cannot go on in senseless activity and excitement as before, but has to understand that although he has out-grown what before used to direct him, this does not mean that he must live without any reasonable guidance, but rather that he must formulate for himself an understanding of life corresponding to his age, and having elucidated it must be guided by it. And in the same way a similar time must come in the growth and development of humanity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mean, Understanding, Humanity

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)”, p.794, e-artnow

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• In places where men are used to differences they inevitably become tolerant.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Differences

  Walter Lippmann (1932). “The Stakes of Diplomacy”, p.52, Transaction Publishers

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• Educated men - "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain - tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Men, Ideas, Judging

  "Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal". Book by Peter Kropotkin, 1896.

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• When you've been used to doing things, and they've been taken away from you, it's as if your hands had been cut off, and you felt the fingers as are of no use to you.

  George Eliot

  Taken, Cutting, Hands

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1825, Delphi Classics

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• The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.

  Tacitus

  Liberty, No Hope, Mischievous

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• Tis nothing when you are used to it.

  Jonathan Swift

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.89

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• Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Government, Hands, Law

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.

  Cesare Pavese

  People, Heaven, Way

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.172, Transaction Publishers

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• It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private and particular friend like we used to think of Grandfather's desk not to touch it not even to talk loud in the room where it was.

  William Faulkner

  Death, Men, Thinking

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.172, Modern Library

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• Remember when we used to worry about some weirdo having a razor blade inside an apple on Halloween? Not anymore. Like a kid today would eat an apple.

  Jay Leno

  Halloween, Kids, Apples

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• I personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives of other people forfeit their own right to live. I believe that that death penalty should be used only very rarely, but I believe that no-one should go out certain that no matter how cruel, how vicious, how hideous their murder, they themselves will not suffer the death penalty.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Punishment, People

  "It just occurred to me that this is the day I was not meant to see". TV Interview with Gill Nevill on Brighton Bomb for Channel 4 "A plus 4", www.margaretthatcher.org. October 15, 1984.

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• In my work, you get used to criticisms. Of course you do, because there are a lot of people trying to get you down, but I always cheer up immensely if one is particularly wounding because I think well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. That is why my father always taught me: never worry about anyone who attacks you personally; it means their arguments carry no weight and they know it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Cheer, Father, Mean

  TV Interview with Enzo Biagi for Italian Television (RAI), www.margaretthatcher.org. March 10, 1986.

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• I know all about violence and physical abuse because my first husband used to beat me severely when he got drunk. Once, I can remember coming home from a party and walking up our vast marble staircase at the Fifth Avenue house while he was striking me. I thought, If I just gave him one shove down the staircase I would be rid of him forever.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Husband, Party, Home

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• You know, as I've grown older, my ideas about sin have changed. I used to believe that sins were things you did, but I don't think that now. I think sins are what you ignore.

  Adam Ross

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

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• I find 12 P.M. as the best time to work out. During training, I do two body parts a day: chest-back, back-triceps or chest-biceps so that my body doesn't get used to a pattern.

  Arjun Rampal

  Two, Work Out, Training

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• I used to be an athlete and even ran the 400 metre stretch for Tamil Nadu. I have always been active.

  Arjun Rampal

  Athlete, Active, Ran

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• People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose.

  Ani DiFranco

  Gun, Shoes, People

  "Song: "Fuel"". 1998.

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• Like the newspapers used to say, if the truth isn't big enough, you print the legend.

  Neil Gaiman

  Legends, Truth Is, Enough

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• All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities get complicated, chaos becomes elegant, and what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Thinking, Times Are Changing, People

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “Tales from Earthsea”, p.368, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Thinking

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Other Wind”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All one's personality is embedded in gloves and hats after they've been good and used. Show me a glove and I'll tell you the character of its owner.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Character, Personality, Gloves

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• As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to listening to the talk of financial killings and sexual misalliance that animates the conversation of the rich and the familiars of the rich.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  New York, Growing Up, Children

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• In the deepest pits of 'Ell, Where the worst defaulters dwell (Charcoal devils used as fuel as you require 'em), There's some lovely coloured rays, Pyrotechnical displays, But you can't expect the burning to admire 'em!

  Edgar Wallace

  Lovely, Devil, Rays

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