Robert Anton Wilson
Author, Philosopher
"History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim."
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Als
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Antonio Machado
Poet
"Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. (Walk, there is no path, the path is made by walking.)"
Al Gore
Politician
"I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States of America."
Veronica Roth
Author
"Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine."
Immanuel Kant
Philosopher
"Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made."
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"I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law."
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"Transformation al leaders don't start by denying the world around them. Instead, they describe a future they'd like to create instead."
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"It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley."
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"Al Gore couldn't be more phony if he were a professional Al Gore impersonator"
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"Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically."
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"I grew up going to the store, seeing the products [of L'Oréal ], seeing the commercials and the ambassadors. I never in a million years thought I'd be associated with them."
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"But a slow, deeply satisfied smile came over him, and his breath quickened. 'So softly it starts,' he whispered. 'Foolishly clever and with an unsurvivable trust. It just saved your miserable life, that questionable show of thought, my itchy-witch.' Al’s smile shifted, becoming lighter. 'And now you will live to possibly regret it."
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"There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]"
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"In my first term, I sang Al Green. In my second term, I'm going with Young Jeezy."
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"When I came to America Al Unser, Jr. was very difficult. And Bobby Unser."
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"To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible."
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"You know, if I were an - if I were a Taliban, I'd say, 'What did al-Qaida ever do for me except get me kicked out of Afghanistan?'"
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"So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone And defecating on your microphone."
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"There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]"
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"If you vote for Democrats, you might as well give Al Quaeda a death ray and a manual."
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"When I was first diagnosed with ALS, I was given two years to live. Now 45 years later, I am doing pretty well."
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"Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar."
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"Even when I did my Broadway show, I did 15 minutes no one had seen before, because that was the night that Michael Jackson protested about Al Sharpton bailing on him. I said, "Wow, if that man bails on you, this must be really a lost cause.""
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"We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority."
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"Al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America, who have a distorted ideology, who have perverted the faith of Islam, and so we have to go after them."
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