“ There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations. ”
- Dean Rusk- Copy
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“ I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read -.'. ”
- Wilson Mizner- Copy
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“ One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance. ”
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart- Copy
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“ The atheists are for the most part impudent and misguided scholars who reason badly, and who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis of the eternity of things and of inev. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ Being in the closet, I saw being homosexual as a deliberate choice. It's got nothing to do with choice or the will, but I was being defiant about it. ”
- Thom Gunn- Copy
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“ It's a Tim sandwich. The meat is fresh, but the bread is moldy. ”
- Daniel Craig- Copy
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“ I joined Bell Laboratories in the fall of 1978. I was one of roughly two dozen brash, young scientists that were hired within a two year period. ”
- Steven Chu- Copy
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“ I'm in search of how to take the stuff I've written and make sure the audience hears it fresh again. It's been a lot of fun. I've enjoyed it. ”
- Bruce Springsteen- Copy
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“ While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble. ”
- Sinclair Lewis- Copy
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“ Cytherea, How bravely thou becom'st thy bed, fresh lily, And whiter than the sheets! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The Summer looks out from her brazen tower, Through the flashing bars of July. ”
- Francis Thompson- Copy
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“ Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting. ”
- Amanda Cross- Copy
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“ A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion. ”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein- Copy
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“ That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting. ”
- Amanda Cross- Copy
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“ A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or not it is permanent, it claims permanence, like dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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