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When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world. Eliot Spitzer
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We are not a land of Islam, and if French citizens can be Muslims, it's on the condition to submit to habits and ways of life that the Greek, Roman influence and 16 centuries of Christianity have shaped. Marion Marechal-Le Pen
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After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands. Rita Levi-Montalcini
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I explained this goes back centuries as an old-time Islamic symbol, ... I told them we'd be a laughing stock if we did this. Tom Burnett
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The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce. Iqbal Quadir
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When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense. Abraham Verghese
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There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.
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(This) was followed and expanded over the centuries by many explorers, including Abel Tasman, James Cook and Matthew Flinders, all of whom played an important role in revealing the secrets of Australia's coast.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man, at twice its natural size Virginia Woolf
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Vermont's 19th century highway system was in need of improvement.
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Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st. David S. Rose
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I'm happy and I'm focused on my work... it's incredible to be able to work with 20th Century Fox and to keep opening doors for Mexicans and Latins in the United States. Eiza Gonzalez
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I'm not a twentieth-century novelist, I'm not modern, and certainly not postmodern. I follow the form of the nineteenth-century novel; that was the century that produced the models of the form. I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst, and I'm not an intellectual. John Irving
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We are at the start of the 21st century and there are many risks in the world and we think that collaboration between Russia and the Vatican corresponds to the common good, Igor Ivanov
century 18th-century persons
I am a person of the 18th century. Cecilia Bartoli
century favor freedom man
For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom. Octavio Paz
century components imagination romantic time tradition
There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism. Twyla Tharp
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In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.
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Contempt is not a thing to be despised. Edmund Burke
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Unfortunately I think that the young people must feel they are held in contempt by the president and not heard by him.
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I can't hold too much contempt for him, because naturally he would be disappointed. Danny Green
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When the good of science or economic interests prevail over the good of the person, and ultimately of whole societies, environmental destruction is a sign of a real contempt for man. Pope John
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Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel. Zadie Smith
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My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance. Steven Pinker
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Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control Arthur Schopenhauer
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There are some of his sayings which show him to have been a devout Jew, others that he wished to destroy Judaism, others showing that he held all people except the Jews in contempt and that the wished to save no others, others showing that he wished Robert Ingersoll
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I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father Jules Feiffer
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I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times. Sandra Cisneros
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If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow. David Strathairn
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My links to WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden mean I am treated as a threat and can't return to the U.K.
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The reason I wanted to do 'The First Men in the Moon' was that there is something so challenging in the combination of space travel and the Edwardian period. Mark Gatiss
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I have a lot of 'Twilight' gear. I love the hoodies that say 'vampires' and 'werewolves,' but I refuse to get one because I can't choose; I have to have them both. I have the Team Edward T-shirt, but I also have Team Jacob. Christian Serratos
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Edward Norton and I have known each other awhile. I just think he's the real deal, supremely talented and smart. He's got a great sense of humor. Kevin Spacey
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I grew up looking at Edward Weston and Henri Cartier-Bresson,
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Members of the Royal Family tend to, and Prince Edward particularly, tend to shade in and out of being ordinary people and royal people.
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You kind of get pigeonholed for various reasons. One thing I didn't do in this movie (that) I regret not doing was taking a pratfall. I think, as great as Edward R. Murrow was, in terms of cinema, you've gotta honor those great clowns.
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Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion. C. S. Lewis
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Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.
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It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more. Charlotte Bronte
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Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?... Charles Dickens
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To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it? Charles Stross
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The process has gone smoothly and well from a technical point of view.
gone
There is only one Army in which you serve. When that identity is gone, it is gone forever. Stanley A. McChrystal
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There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times! Booth Tarkington
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Well, that day is gone, and it will not occur again. Dianne Feinstein
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The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day. David Sedaris
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The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal. Menander
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For my part, it was Greek to me. William Shakespeare
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Do you have any Greek in you? That was just a tactful way of asking if you're pregnant. If you're not, then let's break up. Demetri Martin
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I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy. Billy Joel
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So then there was the Greek, Socrates, he was great... He invented questioning. Before Socrates, no questioning. Everyone sort of went, ''Yeah, I suppose so. Eddie Izzard
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. Aristotle
greek means poet
Poet in Greek means maker. It's the idea of making something that has never been made before.
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I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."] Augusten Burroughs
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We've sent quilts to Kosovo, the Middle East, any time people have been devastated. They need the basics. They need to be warm and protected.
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When I was a middle school principal it disgusts me, some of the things I had to work through at that young age.
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We struggled to clog up the middle and prevent shots from outside the 18.
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Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?. Kurt Vonnegut
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It takes more than one dove to make peace in the Middle East. Madeleine Albright
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Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it. Anthony Rapp
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Working 5 to 9, Monday through Sunday, and being out in the middle of nowhere that combo is really something. Jerry Miller
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We're right smack in the middle of winter. This has the potential to be the coldest spell we've had so far.
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I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end. Diane Sawyer
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Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one.
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The fabric of a garden is determined as much by its textures as by its tonal range and architectural flair. John Burnside
range scarcely work
If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work. Tom Hodgkinson
range wider worked
Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography. Mario Testino
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I agree with Sen. Rand Paul on issues more than I do Mitch McConnell.
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The play worked, ... Randy was wide open. Jason Taylor
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This ranks up there with the worst I've seen. There (were) feces throughout the house, urine-stained carpets, urine-stained sheets, trash throughout the house.
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I used to have the Range Rover LR3, which I loved very, very much. Brian Johnson
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She has a remarkable range of capabilities, a seeming effortlessness. That's more astonishing than anything.
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I was a candidate in 1991. There was virtually a wave for Ram Mandir. In 1989 also, there was a wave - anti-Congress wave.
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We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town. Toby Keith
virtually
What we have right now is exceedingly weak. It's virtually worthless.
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I do virtually nothing except my work. No hobbies. Milton Glaser
virtually
We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations. Craig Venter
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Here's the thing about 'Cabin in the Woods.' I did virtually no research on this movie. Drew Goddard
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I virtually begged for the money. (The project) is really going to be good. I'm thrilled.
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I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months. Kathryn Harrison
wrote
I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before. Kent Haruf
wrote
Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.
wrote
I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington. Alan Furst
wrote
I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.
wrote
I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that. Gail Carson Levine
wrote
My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. Alice Walker
wrote
My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too. Natalie Babbitt
wrote
In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century. William Gibson