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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.


F. Sionil Jose

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BAINBRIDGE COLBY Not as many as they should. More of them are distracted by what's on TV or what catches their ear.
JEFF RAINEY Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
SIR ROGER L'ESTRANGE Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
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PAUL SINGER Parents, teachers, and politicians should not be judged by their popularity.
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CHRIS PAULITZ I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are sho...
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JOSEPH MUSCAT The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they ...
JOSEPH ADDISON The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they...
JOSEPH ADDISON I tell our customers that their goal should be to get their wired networks as secure as their wirele...
ALEX THURBER Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
RONALD REAGAN It is a commonplace to say that novelists should be judged by their work rather than their private l...
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE While history offers us many stories worth telling, some belong to other people, who paid for them w...
CARLIN ROMANO As an international sportsman, I am very lucky to be supported by people all over the world, many of...
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BILLY COLLINS I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitmen...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON It should never be forgotten that, in the struggle between the nations, it is in the interest of eac...
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HEATH LEDGER People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, ...
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GROVER NORQUIST Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane...
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NICK RAHALL People should be interested in books, not their authors.
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JOEL SALATIN That's SHIT!

How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
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JASMINE WHITBY I don't really talk about surgery, because I feel like no one should be judged on their journey.
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JIM RYUN It should be noted that children's games are not merely games. One should regard them as their most ...
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DR. WARREN DOWNHOUR Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wordi...
JOHN KEATS Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they h...
H. G. WELLS People should think about e-mail as something where they are archiving their lives.
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DEYTH BANGER People need to stand up for their wrongs, as they stand up for their rights.
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STEVEN PINKER Proxies should be competent, adequately informed, emotionally stable and committed to your interests...
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BUD KASPER I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling,...
STEPHEN LANG Secrets could never be rushed. They had to come of their own accord, on their own schedule. That way...
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AMY BERARD Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dan...
ELIZABETH I Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.
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MAURICE MATERLINCK Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happ...
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JOSE CARRERAS There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.
JOSE BERGAMIN The batteries are gradually becoming charged, and if the prudence of the government does not provide...
JOSE RIZAL I have recommended in my writings the study of civic virtues, without which there is no redemption. ...
JOSE RIZAL Experience has everywhere shown us, and especially in the Philippines, that the classes which are be...
JOSE RIZAL I'm going to try to be a better guy, a better man, better husband.
JOSE REYES Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligen...
JOSE MOURINHO Many venture capitalists say they're looking for the next big idea. But they aren't, really;...
JOSE FERREIRA Of what use are all the codes in the world, if by means of confidential reports, if for trifling rea...
JOSE RIZAL Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the s...
JOSE RIZAL If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. ...
JOSE PADILHA History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, o...
JOSE RIZAL I'm a man that's unique to the world. That's kind of the star I was born under - on the ...
JOSE JAMES I started culinary school at a very young age, and really I wanted to be out working, cooking, more ...
JOSE ANDRES As chefs, we work with organizations like Oxfam to enrich their projects with culinary tools, recipe...
JOSE ANDRES American cooking is one of the unknown cuisines in America.
JOSE ANDRES Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the wa...
JOSE CANSECO We must make immigration a legal, orderly process to eliminate this issue, not further criminalize i...
JOSE SERRANO Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spani...
JOSE RIZAL You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.
JOSE BERGAMIN Kind of the sad thing is that - it's still true - a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and ...
JOSE JAMES If you look at our world, it's a world of critique.
JOSE CANSECO It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendu...
JOSE SARAMAGO