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“How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb”
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“It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city.”
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“This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.”
Source : "CBS’s Smith: ‘Legendary’ Helen Thomas Has Done ‘Extraordinary Work’" by Kyle Drennen, www.newsbusters.org. August 14, 2008.
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“In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language - the current crop of American poets necessarily give up on others.”
Source : Stephen Burt (2009). “Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry”, Graywolf Press
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“Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.”
Source : Francine Prose (2012). “Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them”, p.6, Union Books
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“So, I'm not impressed by BP's promises and I'm not ready to take the word of a company with a track record of pursuing profit over safety.”
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“I want what's mine. I see other actors who are doing very interesting roles, and I just want to continue to do things that are interesting, and things that people will go see in theaters.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.”
Source : William Congreve (1706). “The Way of the World: A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's Servants. Written by Mr. Congreve”, p.13