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"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return." »Salman Rushdie
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"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return." »Salman Rushdie, O Magazine, April 2003
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"An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters." »Henry Clay
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"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." »Judy Garland
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"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else." »Judy Garland
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"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else." »Judy Garland
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"If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0" »Charles Lauller
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"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon." »Napoleon
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"To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him." »Johann von Goethe
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"If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix..." »Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine
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"Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for." »Amos Tversky
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"I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer." »Real Live Preacher
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"According to conviction, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real me than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is" »Alan B. Watts
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"Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.N.B. A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757 By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes." »Colonel William Prescott
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"The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact." »George Orwell
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