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Oscar Wilde Quotes

Oscar Wilde quote: "The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict..."

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

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People rid the room of argument until they have no one left? except people who agree with them. It is understandable. But I like a good argument. Bono
She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness. Milan Kundera
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Theodor Adorno quote: "Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you."
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you. Theodor Adorno
My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope. H. G. Wells
A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything. Eric San
Robert Anton Wilson quote: "The average is that which no person quite ever is."
The average is that which no person quite ever is. Robert Anton Wilson
It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them. Sparky Anderson
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Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living. Carlos Fuentes
it's natural to die...the fact that we make a big hullabaloo over it, is all because we don't see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we're human we're somethin above nature...we are not. Everything that gets born, dies. Mitch Albom
I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie. Carl Sandburg
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I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly. Tom Hanks
there are many kinds of sincerity and insincerity. When you say 'thank you' for the salt, do you mean what you say ? No. When you say 'the world is round,' do you mean what you say ? No. It is true, but you don't mean it Gilbert K. Chesterton
Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is desirable. It only means that society does not have the moral right to interfere, by force, with a persons decision to commit this act. The result is a far-reaching infantilization and dehumanization of the suicidal person. Thomas Szasz