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• Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that you don't have to play well to be the star. You can play badly, or not even at all. I endorsed that attitude. If you can't write songs, no problem - simply steal one and change it to your taste.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Song, Stars, Attitude

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• I was always scared in the amateurs, but the minute I got in the ring it was like another person took over. I become more vicious. In there I love to hurt people. Outside I can't hurt a bug.

  Nonito Donaire

  Hurt, People, Bugs

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• The wrong people will do everything in their power to guarantee that the wrong political climate will continue. It seems, then, that the wrong people ensure the wrong political climate and the wrong political climate ensures the wrong people. How then to break free of this vicious circle?

  William A. Dembski

  Guarantees That, Circles, People

  "Peerless: A Radically Decentralized Digital Monetary Framework". billdembski.com. November 23, 2016.

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• If I didn't get a job, between 16 and 18, that wasn't significant, I was just going to go to college. I didn't want to be a struggling actor at 36 with five kids, doing something I hated. You see the story so much. It's such a vicious business to be in when you're not meant to be in it.

  Jessica Alba

  Jobs, Struggle, Kids

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• Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.

  Russel Honore

  New York, Cities, Two

  "Gen. Honoré: Sandy recovery is stumbling" by Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

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• I can't do comedy that is cutting and vicious. If I knew I'd said something that was going to make someone feel bad, well, that supersedes everything.

  Eugene Levy

  Cutting, Comedy, Said

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated.

  Richard Perle

  Small Numbers, Iraq, People

  "Turkey at the Crossroads". Luncheon keynote speech at a AEI conference, www.aei.org, September 22, 2003.

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• The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Heart, Broken

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.72, Hoover Press

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• That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.

  Don Van Vliet

  Mean, Sids, Kind

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• Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Envy

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• I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he knows I'm not really a mean, vicious guy. My friends and family know what I'm really like. That's what's important.

  Don Rickles

  Mean, Average, Long

  "What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.

  Clifford Allbutt

  Believe, Science, Errors

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• The vicious cycle that is bringing down European states is not going to hit us [the USA], at least not for a while, at the level of the federal government. The same cannot be said of state and local governments.

  Michael Lewis

  Government, Usa, Levels

  "Michael Lewis’ 'Boomerang': 'Money Thrown Out in Hope, Coming Back in Anger'". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2011.

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• A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.

  William Hazlitt

  Love, Passion, Eye

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1510, Delphi Classics

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• Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit like Sydney, I guess, but the underbelly is a vicious, mean, cruel, awful place.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Mean, Blue, Shining

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• Death, vicious death, Leave a green branch for love.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Branches, Green

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• Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

  Thomas Hobbes

  Facts, Fortune

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.561, Thomas Hobbes

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• Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic .

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Fighting, Ideas, Water

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2009). “Galileo's Dream”, p.423, Spectra

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• I kept careful record of the impact of religion on the election in my county. The religious issue permeated every meeting I conducted. It influenced Republicans and Democrats alike. Ministers preached politics publicly and churches distributed the most vicious electioneering materials. Practically no one I met escaped the pressure of this overriding problem and both parties were ultimately forced to make their major calculations with the religious question a foremost consideration.

  James A. Michener

  Religious, Party, Impact

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• An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy.

  Terry Southern

  Hero, Hypocrisy, Abuse

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• Nothing good can come from the Federal Reserve. It is the biggest taxer of them all. Diluting the value of the dollar by increasing its supply is a vicious, sinister tax on the poor and middle class.

  Ron Paul

  Class, Dollars, Poor

  "End the Fed". Book by Ron Paul, September 16, 2009.

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• Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Stupid, War, Fighting

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.294, Pan Macmillan

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• The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.

  Jonathan Swift

  Kings, Age, Example

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• Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Would Be, Human Nature

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• There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Fall, Ignorance, Government

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1867). “The Friend: a series of essays ... First American, from the second London edition”, p.40

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