I always like playing with some sort of typical convention or idea and turning it over.
Thom Browne
Recitation: by Male by Female
What a brutish master sin is, taking the joy from one's life, stealing money and health, giving promise of tomorrow's pleasures, and finally leading one onto the rotten planking that overlies the mouth of the pit.
Jim Elliot
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Some guys lay their fannies out there every night - they play the game at such a high level, and they give so much that, frankly, they don't get credit for it. And I think it's tragic sometimes.
Jerry West
NightGameThinkCreditPlayHigh
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
John Masefield
PoetryCommon SenseSenseUncommon
In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate into clothes.
Jean Pigozzi
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Only flies have true halteres. In fact, the scientific term for flies, 'diptera,' means 'two wings.' Most insects, including bees, have two pairs of wings for a total of four. In flies, the hindwing pairs have been transformed through evolution into the halteres.
Michael Dickinson
WingsEvolutionTrueTwoInsects
I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.
John Wycliffe
TruthBelieveEndConquerWill
The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.
Steven Pinker
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So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.
Ruben Blades
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This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.
Joseph Lancaster
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So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.
Don Cheadle
MenBlackPlaySavageNobleEither
I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'
Derek Blasberg
LifePeopleCityFastMannersMoral
When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain.
Cliff Richard
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