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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #pressed




My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.


Carol Leifer


#child #father #him #holding #i

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.


H. P. Lovecraft


#chosen #crime #dark #deliberately #expressed

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


#causing #charm #disgust #ear #even

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.


Thomas Huxley


#bible #magna #oppressed #poor

In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.


Barack Obama


#am #best #both #code #could

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.


Herbert Hoover


#climbed #dictator #each #every #except

I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.


Joseph Hume


#allowed #am #burdens #equivalent #fair

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.


Shirley Jackson


#autobiographical #bare #chronological #contains #dislike

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.


Chief Joseph


#away #father #grave #hand #him

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.


Lionel Jospin


#capital punishment #democracies #i #like #punishment