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The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
Friends and Friendship
Hector Hugh Munro

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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Critics and Criticism
Iris Murdoch

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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
Goodness
Iris Murdoch

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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
Bereavement
Iris Murdoch

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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
Humankind
Iris Murdoch

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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
Philosophers and Philosophy
Iris Murdoch

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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
Relationships
Iris Murdoch

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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
Present
Iris Murdoch

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
Money
Rupert Murdoch

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.
Marriage
Joe Murray

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Some people are born to fatness. Others have to get there.
Obesity
Les Murray

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Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
Truth
Edward R. Murrow

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The obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes longer.
Vision
Edward R. Murrow

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The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.
Silence
Musonnius

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Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
Blood
Benito Mussolini

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Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
Fascism
Benito Mussolini

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My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.
Conscience
Allanah Myles

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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Writers and Writing
Vladimir Nabokov

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Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.
Ecology
Ralph Nader

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There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
Democracy
Ralph Nader

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.
Politicians and Politics
Fern Naito

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The army is the true nobility of our country.
Army and Navy
Napoleon III

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The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
Uncategorised
Napoleon III

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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
Conscience
Ogden Nash

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Life and Living
Ogden Nash

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun