He wasn’t good. He was a goddamn cruel bastard.


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The caterpillar becomes a pupa to meditate and then becomes a butterfly
ANKALA V SUBBARAO
With what presumption have we dared to voice "Thank You for home (although we hold the deed), Our ...
ELAINE V. EMANS
Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 Let the Gospels speak. Of what I have learnt fr...
E. V. RIEU
While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there...
EUGENE V DEBS
All work and no fore-play makes Jane a dull girl...
ANKALA V SUBBARAO
It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific...
C. V. RAMAN
An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the write...
V. S. NAIPAUL
Information is the seed for an idea, and only grows when it's watered.
HEINZ V. BERGEN
I never said it would be easy. Giving up is easy.
MARIA V. SNYDER
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are ...
EUGENE V. DEBS
Men cling passionately to old traditions and display intense reluctance to modify customary modes of...
V. GORDON CHILDE
No one is going to turn down a good meal because he does not understand the digestive mechanism.
V. I. KLASSEN
If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourse...
MATTHEW V. LEWIS
The heart is a strange beast and not ruled by logic.
MARIA V. SNYDER
The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and ...
E. V. LUCAS
Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.
H. V. WADE
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely in...
V. S. PRITCHETT
The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The ...
EUGENE V. DEBS
Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.
E. V. LUCAS
The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Pr...
C. V. RAMAN
What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material...
V. S. NAIPAUL
The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized throu...
C. V. RAMAN
The flu is very unpredictable when it begins and in how it takes off.
HARVEY V. FINEBERG
I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They wi...
C. V. RAMAN
I have been competing against IBM my whole career. It's a good company, with good management and...
MARK V. HURD
Given the tremendous customer response we have had to the Gaylord National, we have decided to incre...
COLIN V. REED
I've been a free man.
V. S. NAIPAUL
...ideas have a tendency to live lives of their own, and having become a part of tradition, they are...
RICHARD V. CLEMENCE
...originality consists of the achievement of new combinations, and not of the creation of something...
RICHARD V. CLEMENCE
If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.
ANDREW V. MASON
I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a 'national' postu...
RICHARD V. ALLEN