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I lean over you, your equal, offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor absence of light, for this void which contemplates. To all that which you are, and, for our language, are not, I add a consciousness. I make you experience your supreme identity as a relationship, I name you and define you. You become a delicious passivity. Maurice Blanchot
Some of the old refs have favoritism toward some of the fighters that are currently fighting. There should be a changing of the guard with the refs, the same way there are with fighters. Roberto Duran
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I love cheese and biscuits, the stronger the better. Eric Bristow
I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words. David Frum
Arthur Miller quote: "Betrayal is the only truth that sticks."
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. Arthur Miller
China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself. Yoshihiko Noda
Mia Hamm quote: "You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting..."
You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again. Mia Hamm
Charles Dickens quote: "A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is..."
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man. Charles Dickens
Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it. Philip Pullman
How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them. Abdul Kalam
Henry Ward Beecher quote: "The dog is the god of frolic."
The dog is the god of frolic. Henry Ward Beecher
The funny thing is people won't let me pay for things. I'll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, 'Oh no, it's on the house.' Richard Branson
Michael K. Simpson quote: "We feel the value is in the land, not the improvements."
We feel the value is in the land, not the improvements. Michael K. Simpson
In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences. Joe Scarborough
They never see what you are." Shocked, Jude glanced around to see who'd spoken, then realized she had."Don't they?" Brenna wanted to know, lifting her brow as she topped off Jude's glass yet again."They see a reflection of their own perception. Whore or angel, mother or child. Depending on their view, they're compelled to protect or conquer or exploit. Or you're a convenience," she murmured."Easily discarded. Nora Roberts