Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism."
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Audrey Hepburn
Actress, Humanitarian
"There is more to sex appeal than just measurements"
Gordon Brown
Politician
"Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Time does not have the same appeal for every one"
Paul Johnson
Journalist, Author
"Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth"
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"Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization."
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"A better politics is one where we appeal to each other’s basic decency instead of our basest fears."
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"I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else."
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"Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it."
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"The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority."
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"Sick and perverted always appeals to me."
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"Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans."
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"Once you savor God's goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal."
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"A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent."
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"When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose."
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"The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others."
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"The only time a juggler / Appeals to me / Is when I see him / Miss the ball."
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"I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears."
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"The F-bomb. It's everywhere. You hear it all the time. And I honestly don't understand what the appeal is over the word."
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"Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal."
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"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends."
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"The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work."
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"All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself"
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"How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?"
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"I've been lucky. I've had this history of having an appeal to more than one type of audience."
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