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Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.


Rita Dove


#adversity #almost #begin #being #convey

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.


Robert Downey, Jr.


#better #big #big guys #guys #i

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.


Carol Ann Duffy


#belief #believe #christmas #father #household

And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC.


Fred Thompson


#average #average american #could #difficult #important

This is a universal, unique movie, it has potential to cross barriers. But we never thought about that on set, when we were doing the film. We knew that in making a silent movie, we were doing something a little bit under the wire, a bit interdit. It's a pastiche, but for the French taste, you would have thought.


Jean Dujardin


#barriers #bit #cross #doing #film

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.


Freeman Dyson


#been #get #great #him #human

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.


Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach


#little #only #those #understand #very

Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre.


Christopher Eccleston


#expensive #feel #felt #go #growing

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.


Umberto Eco


#believe #come #enigma #had #harmless

However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and subject to alteration under, federal statutory law.


Dick Thornburgh


#constitutionally #defined #federal #government #however






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