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1982 Fernando Pessoa
To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.
To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.
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1974 Richard P. Feynman
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.
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1971 John Lennon
Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky, Imagine all the people living for today...
Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...
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1969 (Anti-Vietnam war protest)
Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity.
Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity.
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1965 The Beatles
It's been a long time, now I'm coming back home. I've been away now, oh how I've been alone. Wait till I come back to your side. We'll forget the tears we cried.
It's been a long time, now I'm coming back home.
I've been away now, oh how I've been alone.
Wait till I come back to your ...
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1964 Rick Evans
Now it's been ten thousand years man has cried a billion tears for what he never knew
Now it's been ten thousand years
man has cried a billion tears
for what he never knew
now man's reign is through
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1962 John Steinbeck
If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere but doesn't greatly care whether or not he gets there, although he has direction.
In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb vacilar, present participle vacilando. It ...
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1956 C. S. Lewis — UK
Kdyby někdo mohl běhat a neunavil se při tom, pochybuju, že by chtěl dělat něco jiného.
Kdyby někdo mohl běhat a neunavil se při tom, pochybuju, že by chtěl dělat něco jiného.
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1956 C. S. Lewis — UK
If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.
If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.
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1954 Jan Werich
Člověk nemá zestárnout, dokud nezmoudří.
Člověk nemá zestárnout, dokud nezmoudří.
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1951 Jerome D. Salinger
Vlastně ani nevím, proč jsem běhal. Nejspíš se mi chtělo.
Vlastně ani nevím, proč jsem běhal. Nejspíš se mi chtělo.
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1951 Jerome D. Salinger — USA
I don't even know what I was running for — I guess I just felt like it.
I don't even know what I was running for — I guess I just felt like it.
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1948 Richard P. Feynman
You can't say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
You can't say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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1936 F. Scott Fitzgerald
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability ...
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1935 Upton Sinclair
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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1928 John A. Shedd
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are made for.
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are made for.
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1922 George Santayana
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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1914 Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.
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1909 Jack London
Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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