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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

I owe all my knowledge

I owe all my knowledge to the German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg!
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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

The most exciting attractions are

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
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André Gide

André Gide

It is better to be

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer

Freud is the father of

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.
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Harry Morris Warner

Harry Morris Warner

Who the hell wants to

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every man is free to

Every man is free to push the mountains, but mountains won't move with these pushes.
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Stan Openshaw - Doomsday

Stan Openshaw - Doomsday

Some people imagine that nuclear

Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here. . .
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Moody Blues

Moody Blues

Red is grey and yellow

Red is grey and yellow white
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Harry Morris Warner

Harry Morris Warner

The concept is interesting and

The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Falling in love is like

Falling in love is like submerging beneath the ocean with a submarine; you leave the outside world and wander in the silence of dimness.
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Richard Forsyth

Richard Forsyth

Setting loose on the battlefield

Setting loose on the battlefield weapons that are able to learn may be one of the biggest mistakes mankind has ever made. It could also be one of the last.
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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

We have not lost faith,

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Writer is a monkey, jumping

Writer is a monkey, jumping from one tree to another in the jungle of words.
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Eugene F. Ware

Eugene F. Ware

The lightning-bug is brilliant, but

The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind He stumbles through existence with his head-light on behind. - from The Lightning-Bug
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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

The world is populated in

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
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Titus Livius

Titus Livius

War is just to those

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Eugene F. Ware

Eugene F. Ware

All glory comes from daring

All glory comes from daring to begin.
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Real love and Sun have

Real love and Sun have something in common; they are so bright that they don't have shadows, they are free of darkness!..
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Rebecca West

Rebecca West

Before a war military science

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
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Peter De Vries

Peter De Vries

The murals in restaurants are

The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
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John Wanamaker

John Wanamaker

One may walk over the

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

No man is a man

No man is a man without high morals and ethics.
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Lenny Bruce

Lenny Bruce

Miami Beach is where neon

Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.
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Mark Twain

Mark Twain

If we had less statemanship

If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.
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