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Peter Ustinov
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
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Nathaniel Emmons
Just definitions either prevent or put an end to a dispute.
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Anatole France
The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
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Oriana Fallaci
Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.
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Stephen Fry
It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.
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X2 X-Men United
Nightcrawler You know, outside the circus, most people were afraid of me. But I didn't hated them. I pitied them. Do you know why Because most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
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Andrew Weremy
There is more learning in the question itself than the answer.
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Pablo Picasso
When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope. 'Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.
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Saint Francis de Sales
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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Lord Tennyson
Self-reverence, self knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
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Francis Bacon
Silence is the virtue of fools.
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