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We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy Garland
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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.


Voltaire
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.


Mahatma Gandhi
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Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.
Peter DeFazio
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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.


Barbara Tuchman
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.


Aristotle
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How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!


Samuel Adams
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My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.


Honeysuckle Weeks
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My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.


June Jordan
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.


Emily Bronte
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Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency.
David Mamet
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
John Adams
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Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
Marshall McLuhan
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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
William Ralph Inge
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The great universal literature has always had a tragic relation with freedom. The Greeks renounced absolute freedom and imposed order on chaotic mythology, like a tyrant.
Ismail Kadare
I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
Laura Wade
Obviously, 'Homeland' is not just a spy thriller. It's more than that, but 'Tyrant' will be a bit more of a palace drama. It'll be about the families, but there will be political intrigue as well.
Adam Rayner
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Imagination needs to be fed.


Barbara Januszkiewicz
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Imagination is the air of mind.


Philip James Bailey
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Imagination - that's the future for us.


Jan Brett