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• A random group of homeless people under a bridge would be far more intellectually sound and principled than anything I've encountered at the university so far.

  Ward Churchill

  Bridges, People, Sound

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• If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take apart the watch, pull out the spring and make a toy of it, and are then surprised when the watch stops working.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Children, Spring, Pride

  Leo Tolstoy (1987). “A Confession and Other Religious Writings”, p.86, Penguin UK

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• Gould carried the art of bending over backward to positively supine lengths. Why shouldn't we comment on God, as scientists? ... A universe with a creative superintendent would be a very different kind of universe from one without. Why is that not a scientific matter?

  Richard Dawkins

  Art, Creative, Matter

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The most important thing I would learn in school was that almost everything I would learn in school would be utterly useless. When I was fifteen I knew the principal industries of the Ruhr Valley, the underlying causes of World War One and what Peig Sayers had for her dinner every day...What I wanted to know when I was fifteen was the best way to chat up girls. That is what I still want to know.

  Joseph O'Connor

  Girl, War, School

  Joseph O'Connor (1994). “The secret world of the Irish male”

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• Nothing can preserve the integrity of contact between individuals, except a discretionary authority in the state to revise what has become intolerable. The powers of uninterrupted usury are too great. If the accretions of vested interests were to grow without mitigation for many generations, half the population would be no better than slaves to the other half.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Integrity, Generations, Half

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• What is there to regret? I'm a committed Nazi, and if I had to be born a thousand times over, I would be a thousand times what I have been.

  Klaus Barbie

  Regret, Nazi, Born

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• But women are always attracted to power. I do not think there could ever be a conqueror so bloody that most women would not willingly lie with him in the hope of bearing a son who would be every bit as ferocious as the father.

  Gore Vidal

  Father, Lying, Son

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• A period of silence on your part would be welcome.

  Clement Attlee

  Silence, Appreciated, Periods

  "Twentieth Century British Political Facts" by David Butler and Gareth Butler, (p. 289), 2005.

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• Our founders understood that divine authority was necessary in order to establish a ground on which the weak, the defenseless, the powerless, the poor and the wretched would be able to stand, in the face of every human power whatsoever, and demand respect for their human rights and dignity.

  Alan Keyes

  Rights, Order, Demand

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• I've been asked to write my autobiography and really they only want 8 years (1962-1970), and I keep saying it would be five volumes before I even got into the band!

  Ringo Starr

  Writing, Years, Band

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• It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic energy.

  Harold Laski

  Age, Energy, Purpose

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• You can't write your life story and leave out one of the most important things that happened to you in your life. I think that that would be dishonest, and it would be something people would be very angry about.

  Kris Jenner

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If women ran the world there would be no wars. However every 28 days there would be some very intense negotiations.

  Robin Williams

  War, World, Intense

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• It would be quite unusual for me to get deep into a project and then shitcan it. One of the advantages of having done this for a while is that I have a better sense than I used to of when something is or isn't working. Until I developed that sense, this was a pretty dicey career for me, both in terms of paying the rent, and emotional wear and tear.

  Neal Stephenson

  Emotional, Careers, Tears

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Saturday Night Live was a show that I never thought I would be on, because I didn't do sketch comedy and I didn't do impressions. I was a stand-up.

  Kevin Nealon

  Night, Comedy, Impression

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit of burnt wood was also good because I was drawing burnt wood with a piece of wood. I wanted to do black and white. After using color, I thought black and white would be good. You can have color in black and white. There is color in them, actually.

  David Hockney

  Black And White, Color, Ideas

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• I don't mind making a fool of myself. I felt like people would be accepting of that because, to me, that seems like an interesting way to do a show. I've always thought that it's interesting to watch people work things out on stage.

  Fiona Apple

  Interesting, People, Mind

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 7, 2013.

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• I can't choose the most meaningful song that I've written. That would be like choosing one child over another. But first borns are always special.

  Matisyahu

  Meaningful, Song, Children

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I could give advice to anyone, it would be that sometimes the best way you can fight a problem - and this is going to be a little bit controversial - is to not address it.

  Lilly Singh

  Fighting, Giving, Advice

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I do want for people instead of downloading music for free, to start purchasing, that's how everyone makes their living, that's how I make my living too. So, it would be nice for people to start actually paying for it.

  Shanice

  Nice, People, Want

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• If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against.” That’s certainly true of me. Over my lifetime, the Republican Party has done far more to repulse me than the Democratic Party has done to appeal to me. But the result in the voting booth would be about the same either way.

  Kevin Drum

  Party, Voting, Done

  "In Politics, Hate > Love" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. October 27, 2015.

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• From the writing stage, I had envisioned a film that would be bright and light, even if the movie addresses adolescent unrest and self-destructive behavior. Talking about adolescence, I wanted to make a very musical film that was also a love story with a sensorial, sensual dimension and which had a strong emotional impact.

  Alante Kavaite

  Strong, Writing, Emotional

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I had confidence that as long as we did our work well and were good to our customers, there would be no limit to us.

  Sam Walton

  Long, Limits, Wells

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• That is the operatic problem; the singer must keep up a big head of steam while trying to appear secretive, or seductive, or consumptive. Some ingenious composer should write an opera about a group of people who were condemned by a cruel god to scream all the time; it would be an instantaneous success, and a triumph of versimilitude.

  Robertson Davies

  Writing, People, Seductive

  Robertson Davies (1986). “The papers of Samuel Marchbanks”, Viking, 1986

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• If all the lawyers were hanged tomorrow, and their bones were sold to a mah jong factory, we'd all be freer and safer, and our taxes would be reduced by almost a half.

  H. L. Mencken

  Half, Tomorrow, Lawyer

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