Daphne du Maurier Quotes
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There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.
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As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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I wanted to greet people in Telugu, so I asked someone how to say 'How are you' in Telugu. In fact, I instructed my entire staff to speak to me only in Telugu. So, there were times when I would ask them to translate certain words for me in Hindi, but the effort paid off.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
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I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
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I was in the streets at eight, nine years old.
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I don't just want to be someone who hits the ball 100 per cent every time. You can play with freedom and still mix up the pace, mix up the spins and everything like that. That's what I want to be doing, because you get into that very one-dimensional kind of tennis if you don't work on slicing and coming into the net.
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Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.
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It isn't that information is exploding, but accessibility is. There's just about as much information this year as there was last year; it's been growing at a steady rate. It's just that now it's so much more accessible because of information technology. The consensus is that a Web crawler could get to a terabyte of publicly accesible HTML. A terabyte is about a million books. the UC Berkeley library has about 8 million books, and the Library of Congress has 20 million books.
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I would have thought he would be there out of just plain curiosity. It was incredible that he was missing.
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Most of us aren't that interested in getting rich- we just don't want to get poor.
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Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.
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All autobiography is self-indulgent.
