Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
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Strong women, that's who I really respect.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
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She grunted. 'Nothing unusual?''That’s right.''Well, if you ask me, that’s pretty unusual right there, if a body was smart enough to notice it.'
Orson Scott Card
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The Master persistently warned against the attempt to encompass Reality in a concept or a name. A scholar in mysticism once asked, 'When you speak of BEING, sir, is it eternal, transcendent being you speak of, or transient, contingent being?' The Master closed his eyes in thought. Then he opened them, put on his most disarming expression, and said, 'Yes!'
Anthony de Mello
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I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.
Leo Tolstoy
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The rich, the well-born, and the able, acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty and plain sense, in a house of representatives. The most illustrious of them must, therefore, be separated from the mass, and placed by themselves in a senate; this is, to all honest and useful intents, an ostracism.
John Adams
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Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.
Christina Romer
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Provides for common sense tax relief in the future. We have the largest surplus in history, which means the taxpayers are being overcharged.
Dennis Hastert
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Most People are wretched more by the Fears of what may come, than what they endure at present. ... a manifest Contradiction to good Sense; for who, with the right use of that, wou'd lose the Enjoyment of a present Comfort, to lament a Misfortune only in Supposition; which ten to one never comes to pass.
Eliza Haywood
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A patient must have a terminal diagnosis to be admitted to such a facility.
Andrea Phillips
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I wish I had more time to read. I'm always traveling.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne
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I feel like I have big thighs. My brother was always like, 'Yeah, I want big thighs! Big thighs are awesome!' And I'm like, 'Yeah, for a man!' But I've trained since I was 6 years old to play soccer, and this is just the type of body I have.
Ali Krieger
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Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand