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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. Joseph Addison | top
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. Henri Frederic Amiel | top
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I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. Charles Baudelaire | top
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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. Georges Bernanos | top
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The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future. Jorge Luis Borges | top
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I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally. Ken Burns | top
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When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette. Tia Carrere | top
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The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin. Ralph Chaplin | top
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What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly. Salmon P. Chase | top
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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace. Kate Chopin | top
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Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey. Godfried Danneels | top
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. Bette Davis | top
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There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart. Thomas Fuller | top
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I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am. Karl Kraus | top
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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned. Wally Lamb | top
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I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me. Courtney Love | top
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Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it. Thomas Francis Meagher | top
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The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. Vladimir Nabokov | top
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Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades. Tillie Olsen | top
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Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something. Michael Pollan | top
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Solitude vivifies; isolation kills. Joseph Roux | top
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Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. Lytton Strachey | top
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It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House. Robert Taft | top
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Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream. Billy Bob Thornton | top
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The only sound approach to collective bargaining is to work out an agreement that clarifies the rights and responsibilities of the parties, establishes principles and operates to the advantage of all concerned. Charles E. Wilson | top