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• Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Dark, Glowing, Two

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• It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.

  Jules Verne

  Want, New Things

  Jules Verne (1999). “Around the World in Eighty Days”, p.42, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Berlusconi is being tried because he lives with women. If he was homosexual, no one would have lifted a finger against him.

  Vladimir Putin

  Gay, Trials, Faces

  "Berlusconi would never have been shamed if he was gay - Putin". www.telegraph.co.uk. September 20, 2013.

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• If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Leader, Sake

  Time Interview, content.time.com. 2007.

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• All of the evidence highlights the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry about. Mind your own business, and support or at least tolerate what we do, and you'll be fine. Put differently, you must refrain from provoking the authority that wields surveillance powers if you wish to be deemed free of wrongdoing. This is a deal that invites passivity, obedience, and conformity. The safest course, the way to ensure being “left alone,” is to remain quiet, unthreatening, and compliant.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Worry, Support, Challenges

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• What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?

  Aaron Swartz

  Motivational, Work, Important

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• You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Team, Guy, Needs

  "The Social Network". Biography, Drama, www.imdb.com. October 01, 2010.

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• The biggest question I have is if you're a rock singer or a rock 'n' roll band, or if you're a pop singer if you've made your way in another genre of music and now you want to make a country record, why? That's my question. Why?

  Joe Nichols

  Country, Rocks, Band

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• If one artist sells five million albums, the tendency is for other artists to say, 'Maybe I should do a little of that, too.' That can be tough to resist.

  Joe Nichols

  Artist, Albums, Littles

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• Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of '94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck.

  Hilary Mantel

  Mean, Dark, White

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• Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we don't care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out adjectives and adverbs and keep the description to a minimum.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Writing, Adjectives And Adverbs, Care

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• If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me.

  Claire Messud

  Heart, Concern

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• I have this weird sort of Gemini thing where I can really be empathetic and a loving person. But if you piss me off, I can be one of the meanest, most sadistic people.

  Bill Burr

  People, Sadistic, Empathetic

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• Comedy can always be taken the wrong way. If I do a bit that is meant to diffuse racism or sexism, Im not going to avoid it on the chance that a small portion of the audience might take it the wrong way.

  Doug Stanhope

  Taken, Racism, Might

  "Doug Stanhope on alcohol, politics and killing comedy Bootleggers's families". Interview with Joel Warner and Peter McGraw, www.wired.com. June 11, 2006.

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• The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?

  Jules Verne

  Sea, Speak, Ends

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.45, Jules Verne

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• The Lord is going to keep His people informed if they will listen.

  Harold B. Lee

  People, Lord

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• If we do not feel like praying, then we should pray until we do feel like praying.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Praying, Should, Feels

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Someone asked me yesterday if Dracula met Saruman and there was a fight, who would win. I just looked at this man. What an idiotic thing to say. I mean, really, it was half-witted.

  Christopher Lee

  Mean, Fighting, Winning

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• We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.

  Yehuda Berg

  Thinking, Understanding, Ships

  "What the @#$% is Going On?" by Yehuda Berg, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 10, 2010.

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• If you want an abortion you go to Planned Parenthood and that’s well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.

  Jon Kyl

  Abortion, Doe, Want

  "Jon Kyl Expunges Remark That Was ‘Not Intended To Be A Factual Statement’ From Congressional Record" by Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 21, 2011.

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• If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.

  Georges Bataille

  Humanity, Want, Realizing

  Georges Bataille (2004). “On Nietzsche”, p.26, A&C Black

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• Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is qualified for leadership, when it comes to posts of authority such as presidency, Muslim scholars unanimously agree that it is impermissible for a woman to assume such a post because in this case she is in charge of her people's affairs.

  Yusuf al-Qaradawi

  Men, Rights, People

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• If you are looking for happiness in this world (dunya), you're in the wrong place.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Dunya, World, Looking For Happiness

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• If Islam is not making you happy, then something is wrong with your Islam

  Hamza Yusuf

  Islam

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• Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with drippings (tears). I don't give a damn whether they eat or not. Forced feeding leads to excessive thinness (effete). Nobody should experience anything they don't need to, if they don't need poetry bully for them. I like the movies too. And after all, only Whitman and Crane and Williams, of the American poets, are better than the movies.

  Frank O'Hara

  Mother, Kids, Giving

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