Dante Alighieri Quotes
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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My school in St. Louis is great. They basically created a program where I can do online classes and independent studies when I'm traveling. But then I still get to go home and take classes in a normal school environment.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.
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In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.
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To make war, you had to be filled with love, with a vehement passion, exalted, intoxicated, otherwise the whole thing was inhuman and absurd.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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A thinking man's greatest happiness is to have fathomed what can be fathomed and to revere in silence what cannot be fathomed.
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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
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It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state.
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When riches begin to come they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.
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Always define WHAT you want to do with your life and WHAT you have to offer to the world, in terms of your favorite talents/gifts/skills-not in terms of a job-title.
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Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness. When we ask ourselves only what is right, or what is the will of God (the same question), then we may truly be said to live in His light.
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Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.