"Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore."
-Stendhal
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"The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water."
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"Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion."
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"Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge."
-Stendhal
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"To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face."
-Stendhal
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"If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured."
-Stendhal
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-Rickie Lee Jones
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"There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice."
-Boris Kodjoe
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"If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive."
-Susan Rice
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"And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe."
-Clifford D. Simak
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"The Nuclear Security Summit was President Obama's initiative born out of his vision to leave behind a safer, more prosperous world for the future generation."
-Lee Myung-bak
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