I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.
George Plimpton
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OLASOT Never assume that others have understood exactly what you mean.
STEVEN REDHEAD I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing.
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MAYSOON ZAYID Defer not thy well-doing; be not like St. George, who is always a horseback, and never rides on.
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ELBERT HUBBARD Until this moment, I never understood how hard it was to lose something you never had.”
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GEORGE SANTAYANA When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
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GEORGE MCGOVERN Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.
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GEORGE WASHINGTON War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
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GEORGE TAKEI If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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GEORGE ORWELL For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
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GEORGE FOREMAN Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt ...
GEORGE FOREMAN We'd always said boxers shouldn't lift weights. Now I realize some champion boxer started th...
GEORGE FOREMAN It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsi...
GEORGE GROSZ The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with,...
GEORGE GROSZ I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these t...
GEORGE CATLIN The Word
Wonder or dream from distant land
I carried to my country's strand
STEFAN GEORGE The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing some...
GEORGE LUCAS I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly ...
GEORGE GREY