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“Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration which have been raining down by the hundreds of years annually, as in terms of the manifold personal sacrifices sustained by”
Peter Kropotkin
“The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line.”
William S. Burroughs
“Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.”
Walter Bagehot
“Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.”
Otto Weininger
“There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.”
Marlon Brando
“It (modern philosophy) certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated”
John Dewey
“I was a little kid, 10 or 12, ... I remember exactly ... transistor radios had just happened. When transistor radios happened, that was huge. And everybody had this little thing. And I was on a bus — I had been to the skating rink in Flushing [Queens, New York], near where I lived. And we were on the bus, and some kid had a transistor radio and it came over the radio. When 'Giant' came out, he was already gone. Yeah, that was a very big deal.”
Christopher Walken
“Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.”
Edmund Waller
“It doesn't exactly feel like a shock, but it's all new to me, and I'm taking it in as it comes.”
Eminem
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