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What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.


Tom Stoppard

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What a fine persecution - to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.
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DICK CHENEY To be quite honest, just being here the last three years, to host hasn't ever been a beneficial thin...
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KATHY NAJIMY Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it
SOREN KIERKEGAARD I can't imagine what my life was before. I can't imagine ever being without you for very long again.
ANNA GODBERSEN We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.
DAN MILLMAN I remember being intrigued by the idea of school-in-a-box, just-add-water-and-Sam.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I knew I could play, ... I knew I was going to be fine. I just kept my head up.
JARED ALLEN I was useless, to be quite honest, as being clear on what was going on out there,
ANDRE AGASSI If the people governing you could burden you for suicide, it would be quite a hefty fine.
PABLO D. RODRIGUEZ Being touched by an angel, might be a hug received from your closest friend. ~ Tom Baker
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DADA BHAGWAN You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.
WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.
JANE PORTER Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem
JANE PORTER If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
DEBASISH MRIDHA I know I walk a fine line between being a respected actor and being what they call a sex symbol.
EVA MENDES The enlightened one should inspire others by performing all works efficiently without attachment.
BHAGAVAD GITA "In the heart is where the recordings of love and kindness are kept." ~ Tom Baker
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PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH A greater persecution shall befall the Christian Church than has ever been in Africa, and will last ...
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EDITH WHARTON How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinctio...
EDITH WHARTON I felt fine, ... I wanted to take all of the snaps, but [coach Tom Coughlin] took me out and I don't...
NEW YORK GIANTS I felt fine, ... I wanted to take all of the snaps, but (coach Tom Coughlin) took me out and I don't...
NEW YORK GIANTS Very little of significance has ever been achieved without a goal first being set.
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CHERYL RUSHTON If I said that I couldn't live without Tom, it wouldn't be true. Of course I can live without him. I...
ANNA MAXTED The whole world can be explained in just one sentence. ‘What is being discharged (visarjan) is old...
DADA BHAGWAN The union's fine with it. It's quite liberal and easygoing.
DAVID STERN The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between hi...
FRANCES PERKINS We're doing just fine without Zoe. Even though she was a great player and a great asset to the team....
ALYSSA LAFITA "Let kindness be part of your religion, Let gratitude be your reward, being able to render small act...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
WINSTON CHURCHILL It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Moksha is not difficult if one meets a ‘Gnani Purush’ [the enlightened one]. If one believes tha...
DADA BHAGWAN The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened ...
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BEL POWLEY I hyperventilate quite a lot.
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MIKE FIGGIS "Criticism can build a strong wall, without a gate for Love and Kindness to enter." ~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept
ISAK DINESEN "The poorest people are not the ones without a cent. It's the ones without a dream or hope." ~ Tom B...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Persecution comes from anywhere, don’t be surprised
SUNDAY ADELAJA How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead...
D.H. LAWRENCE How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Who tries to find the logic of love will die without ever being able to love.
SORIN CERIN Bass Weejuns are the Cordovan black or brown penny loafers originally called Norwegian Loafers, henc...
ROGER STONE Live your life without ever having to ask, 'What if?
KEN POIROT Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't a...
EDGAR RAMIREZ I know what you are known as . . . but to me, you will always be Tom Riddle. It is one of the irrita...
J.K. ROWLING I don't need to know how they make Coca-Cola. I think it tastes just fine not knowing what the i...
COLIN HANKS Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is ...
GRACE METALIOUS It is unjust, but only Christlike, to suffer persecution for doing what is right.
JOYCE RACHELLE For me, happiness is waking up excited even though you have no particular place to go…..
CHERYL RUSHTON It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can li...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd b...
J.R. RIM To be challenged by religious persecution is to make a brutal commitment of not going back
SUNDAY ADELAJA "How safe in life are we without putting our faith, in a loving God? My Grandfather believed he was ...
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LINO SPITERI How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.
GERALD W. JOHNSON No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.
GERALD W. JOHNSTON The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself, and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro...
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ERICA JONG Alex never asked that. He never, ever actually asked what I did. It was, 'What was I going to do? Wa...
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SUSIE L HILL There will never, ever, ever be a contract without some form of cost sharing.
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TOM STOPPARD Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usual...
TOM STOPPARD I don't think falling in love in Slovakia is much different from falling in love in Tunbridge We...
TOM STOPPARD GUIL: It [Hamlet's madness] really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mista...
TOM STOPPARD A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.
TOM STOPPARD There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word ...
TOM STOPPARD Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came acro...
TOM STOPPARD Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on stagin...
TOM STOPPARD One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that...
TOM STOPPARD The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
TOM STOPPARD You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the ...
TOM STOPPARD Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by on...
TOM STOPPARD Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of ag...
TOM STOPPARD As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it...
TOM STOPPARD All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and...
TOM STOPPARD We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
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