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Al Qaeda doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so in my opinion, they should not be afforded the protections of them. ↗

— Brad Thor

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For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made. ↗

— Guillermo del Toro

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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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I met Jesse Owens once. He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances. ↗

— Lee Trevino

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With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

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There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

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