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GEORGES BATAILLE I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.
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FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.
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PAT QUINN Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning ano...
FLORA LEWIS Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world h...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist ide...
JANE SMILEY Everything I do tries to do the same thing, which is to express things that are hard to express, hid...
JIM WOODRING The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
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IMMS NAMASEB I think our business is really different. I don't know, there's no way to express it.
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MELANIE SYKES I still hold on to the idea that a record can really change the way I feel.
DAVE GAHAN But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, an...
JIM BUTCHER Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people....
JAY GRIFFITHS The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
BERNARD BARUCH The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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JEFFREY BROWN I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I'm an old soul. The blues, especially older blues, is the human element that kind of gives the ...
BRIA SKONBERG I think people should express themselves more and not just buy what's in. While it can be very b...
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ANDREA BOCELLI Human nature being what it is, they tried to go out the same way they came in ... That was the probl...
CHARLES HALL Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.
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DONALD FULLENWIDER A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poe...
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ELLEN FORNEY That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea th...
TOM STOPPARD The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.
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ERIC CLAPTON I am not red or blue. I am red, white and blue. Those are the same colors in my body (my heart, bloo...
SUZY KASSEM I went straight from the Marine Corps to the MFA. The way that you would express things among Marine...
PHIL KLAY The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which ...
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MICHAEL PARKER I'm not attacking the idea that people live in conglomerations of houses in proximity to one ano...
EDMUND PHELPS Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different...
YASUNARI KAWABATA I believe that Greenland will achieve independence during the time I am still active in politics.
ALEQA HAMMOND I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there...
M.C. HAMMER As a human being, you are certainly entitled to your own opinion. It's just that you're blown out of...
TONI COLLETTE There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn't look at all like the way you said...
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ALBERT EINSTEIN I was very active in the peace movement, still am.
MARGOT KIDDER Some students are still bothered by it, ... I don't think it's a large majority one way or another.
CHRIS DUNSHEE All of us, in words that contradict each other, express at bottom the same exalted impulse. What set...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Without you, I will still be me, just that I will have no souls to express to; so when oneself is no...
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CATHERINE JOHNSON I think the idea of losing your hair is still very potent, emotional thing.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The most effective way to use repetition is to repeat the same idea using different words.
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FRANCES WRIGHT We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stori...
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The idea that there’s good and evil knowledge . . . well, that’s strictly a religious point of v...
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STANLEY DONEN It still is an active investigation, ... It is an active investigation all over the world.
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JEAN HOUSTON Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.
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JEAN GIRAUDOUX Despair is the only genuine atheism.
JEAN PAUL I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
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JEAN BAUDRILLARD In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
JEAN PAUL What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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JEAN ROSTAND Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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JEAN GENET To hate fatigues.
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JEAN GIRAUDOUX Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
JEAN ROSTAND We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
JEAN ROSTAND My only hope lies in my despair.
JEAN RACINE Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
JEAN KERR Without money honor is merely a disease.
JEAN RACINE It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
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JEAN PAUL The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.
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JEAN ROSTAND Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
JEAN PAUL The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have t...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he inve...
JEAN ARP In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need schola...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Saintliness is also a temptation.
JEAN ANOUILH Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines ...
JEAN GENET