#them

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#context #everything #historical #important #interest

In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#bankers #based #could #financing #go

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#amongst #ashamed #breathing #cows #creatures

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone. ↗

— Quintilian

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I think I have some interesting things to say and I don't think anybody out there is saying them. ↗

— Robin Quivers

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Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power. ↗

— Sun Ra

#beethoven #had #money #please #power

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends. ↗

— Jean Racine

#among #common #friends #maxim #old

And I gave this directive to them, that if they free our assets in the United States, that would be a sign of goodwill. I have the same idea this time. ↗

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#directive #free #gave #goodwill #i

Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it's just 18-year-old kids. ↗

— Gideon Raff

#because #been #done #everybody #feel

I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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