"One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked."
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"No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made."
"The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic."
"The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves"
"If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship."
"He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another kind of sensation, thou wilt be a different kind of living being and thou wilt not cease to live."
"I guess my enthusiasm kind of rubs off on people."
"We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that."
"For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesnt begin at all."
"What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with."
"I think some people see me as being some kind of lovable, bumbling buffoon, and I'm actually quite mouthy and sharp, and that doesn't compute."
"At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off stage I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad."
"Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less."
"It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment."
"It's about bums on seats. If nobody wants to listen to what you are doing, it kind of defeats the purpose really, doesn't it?"
"There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail."
"It's hard to achieve that, especially in a free society, but it's been done, and that's the kind of thing that activists in the IWW have to work against, right on the shop floor. It's not so simple, but it's been done before."
"I kind of limp along like so many of us do in these realms. Occasionally I've felt the grace of another presence in my life. But I can't develop any kind of spiritual structure on that."
"Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction."
"Part of the act of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don't look for them in the wrong places."