#van

I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist. ↗

— Beatrice Dalle

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I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

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I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#armies #could #defeat #dozen #enabled

The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical. ↗

— Alexander Duff

#ceases #church #evangelical #soon #which

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#bargain #discontented #excellent #frame #him

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#deliberate #own #people #reverse #safely

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#beauty #does #good #grace #humour

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances. ↗

— Joseph McCabe

#interpreters #nature #other #retreats #rival

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not. ↗

— George Michael

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