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8 quotesTyrants seldom want pretexts.
Tyranny
Edmund Burke
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Priority is a function of context.
Priorities
Stephen R. Covey
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Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
Acting and Actors
Marguerite Duras
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Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
Youth
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
Motives
Henry James
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Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
Writers and Writing
William James
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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Explanations
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.
Life and Living
Source Unknown
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun