Charles II Quotes
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I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.
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We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.
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Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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There are two kinds of serial killers as far as the victim is concerned: the kind that you don't see before they pounce on you and the kind you see and don't expect to pounce on you.
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What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.
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Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it.
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Deceiving himself well is the first quality of the statesman.
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Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing which shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
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If you're going to write a story, avoid contemporary references. They date a story and they have no staying power.
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Thus he had a double thought: the one by which he acted as king, the other by which he recognized his true state, and that it was accident alone that had placed him in his present condition.
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We have a saying: 'A single straw of a broom can be broken easily, but the straws together are not easily broken.' So here are three things African women can do to support their sisters and daughters:
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It is almost always the case that when someone self-radicalizes, someone close to them sees the sign, which is why we continue to encourage public awareness, public vigilance.
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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
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I just don't know the art of making friends with girls. And that's the reason why I've never had a single girl as a friend. Also, I'm so engrossed in cricket that I've never found an opportunity to interact with girls very closely. In a way, it's better, as my mind doesn't get diverted!
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I wanted to be an actor, but only because I wanted to be everything, and that was the only way I could be a marine biologist as well.
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Never in the way, and never out of the way.
