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Arabella Weir quote: "Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be."

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

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I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about, and by that I mean everything we desire, is true (the myth of Icarus came before aviation, and if Ader or Bleriot started flying it is because all men have dreamed of flight). There is nothing truer than myth... Reality does not have to be: it is simply what is. Eugene Ionesco
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Saul Williams quote: "My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme."
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance. Benjamin Disraeli
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I was kind of like chasing my tail and trying to do the right thing, and was a little bit stupid. Or irresponsible, which is the same thing I guess. It's just been really busy and I had a lot of great opportunities. Robert Downey, Jr.
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If you want someone to feel warm, you dress them in a warm color and put a warm light on them and you get the picture. Sometimes, all that needs pushing a little bit to help tell the story. Colleen Atwood