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Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move. ↗

— Colin Powell

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My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#great #had #haven #i #influences

I deserve respect for the things I did not do. ↗

— Dan Quayle

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Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

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Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

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I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days. ↗

— Tony Randall

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The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment. ↗

— James Randi

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