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And I know one thing more - that the Europe of the future cannot exist without commemorating all those, regardless of their nationality, who were killed at that time with complete contempt and hate, who were tortured to death, starved, gassed, incinerated, and hanged.
Andrzej Szczypiorski
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Lack of feeling in an emotional sense is responsible for the way some singers do our songs. They don't understand and are too old to grasp the feeling. Beatles are really the only people who can play Beatle music.
John Lennon
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There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.
Leo Tolstoy
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I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
Jeanette Winterson
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"You know what I should do?"" Hoshino asked excited. ""Of course,"" the cat said. ""What'd I tell you? Cats know everything. Not like dogs."
Haruki Murakami
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"""Kindness"" can mean a lot of different things. In this case, I felt I had to present his [Donald Trump's] supporters in as fair a light as possible - many of them hadn't been interviewed before and that entailed some interviewer-courtesy in the editing and so on."
George Saunders
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Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it...
Marcel Proust
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I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.
Ray Bradbury
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She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.
Oscar Wilde
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Do you suppose that it is within your power to insult me? You evidently are not aware to whom you are speaking? Do you imagine that the envenomed spittle of five hundred little gentlemen of your type, heaped one upon another, would succeed in slobbering so much as the tips of my august toes?
Marcel Proust
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I don't subscribe to the thesis, 'Let the buyer beware,' I prefer the disregarded one that goes, 'Let the seller be honest.'
Isaac Asimov
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The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.
George R. R. Martin
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The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges.
Gore Vidal
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Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.
Ray Bradbury
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Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.
Richard Bach
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It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
Eugenio Montale
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May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift
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There's no such thing as forever.
Gregory David Roberts
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there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.
Edith Wharton
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An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.
Mark Twain
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Wisdom is better than weapons of war but one sinner destroyeth much good.
Doris Lessing
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Conservatives are giving up on democracy because it's not efficient. They want an autocratic regime.
Irvine Welsh
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It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations. But I can look back at the way I thought and felt even as a little kid and there was a lot of wonder there, and openness to the many sides of life.
George Saunders
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