#read

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#change #change the world #facts #get #happened

One does not set fire to a world which is already lost. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#thought #wait #without #you

Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do. ↗

— Roger Ebert

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Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. ↗

— Greg Egan

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Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness. ↗

— Kim Elizabeth

#dreadful #eternal #greet #life #may

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough. ↗

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

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