Quote by Tom Stoppard
Back in the East you cant do much without the right papers, but wi

Back in the East you cant do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power. – Tom Stoppard

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From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember Ive liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked. – Tom Stoppard

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My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful. – Tom Stoppard

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A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words. – Phillips Brooks

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If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. – Peace Pilgrim

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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, Give, give. – Abigail Adams

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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall. – Charles Babbage

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I hear the heartthrob of time in my veins. – Terri Guillemets

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Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history. – Terry Eagleton

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Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. – James Bryce

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Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor. – Samuel Johnson

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