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After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

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A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#dramatic #good #many #screaming #situations

The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people. ↗

— Charles Trevelyan

#contend #evil #famine #moral #moral evil

The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example. ↗

— Robert Trout

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I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA. ↗

— Dwyane Wade

#basketball #dreaming #football #football player #i

The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini. ↗

— Tom Waits

#atomic bomb #bikini #bomb #explosive #first

I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age. ↗

— Chris Ware

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If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#end #end of the day #green #knees #life

There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.! ↗

— Naomi Watts

#anything #blaming #completely #creativity #different

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air. ↗

— Richard Whately

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