There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. ~Isaac Asimov
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In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally. ~Vince Lombardi
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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I think "Voldemort" is definitely the scariest villain. ~Lauren Oliver
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Will is stronger than fact; it can mold and overcome fact. ~H. G. Wells
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Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. ~Charlayne Hunter Gault
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation. ~Jack Steinberger
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
#quotes #edgar-degas #art #attitude

The people of Chicago are a proud people; and for good reason. ~Jane Byrne
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I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up. ~Jennifer Ellison
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You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself. ~Truman Capote
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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole. ~Arthur Capper
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination. ~Albert Einstein
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager. I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I did'nt really care. It did'nt bother me at all. ~Vivienne Westwood
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As proud as a peacock. ~Proverb
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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