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What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists. ↗

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did. ↗

— Roger Bannister

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I love to fish. You can go hours without anything happening, and all of a sudden a big blue marlin comes into the spread and it's cockpit chaos. My dream is to catch a grander, a 1,000 pounder. ↗

— George Strait

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A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered. ↗

— Lee Strasberg

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My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different. ↗

— Balthazar Getty

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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist. ↗

— Paul Getty

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