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Neither as a writer nor, moreover, as a leader of a nation should you use terminology that obscures the reality of human evil.


Joseph Brodsky

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JOSEPH ADDISON Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.
JOSEPH ADDISON I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
CHIEF JOSEPH Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
JOSEPH ADDISON If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he ...
JOSEPH ADDISON There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
JOSEPH JOUBERT The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
JOSEPH JOUBERT My voice is still for war.
JOSEPH ADDISON Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright...
JOSEPH ADDISON Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
JOSEPH ROUX There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportuniti...
JOSEPH CONRAD What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; Old age is slow in both.
JOSEPH ADDISON There were formerly horizons within which people lived and thought and mythologized. There are now n...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
JOSEPH JOUBERT You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.
JOSEPH PARKINSON A lot of people have mentioned that I'm the X-factor on the team. I'll try and do what I've been try...
ADRIAN JOSEPH The ACC games are right around the corner. We can't play like this because it's a different level.
ADRIAN JOSEPH ACC games are right around the corner. We can't play like this because it's a different level.
ADRIAN JOSEPH I stepped up with confidence to take the shot, and it went in. After the shot went through the net, ...
ADRIAN JOSEPH We're going to come out like we do every game playing defense and playing with a lot of confidence. ...
ADRIAN JOSEPH I've been given more opportunities, and I'm just trying to step up and do big things along with Sean...
ADRIAN JOSEPH When Sean came back in the game, he kept on scoring so all their focus was on Sean. That made me wid...
ADRIAN JOSEPH