Klemens von Metternich Quotes
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
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I enjoy fashion and taking the effort to present myself well, and I'm glad that a lot of people refer to me as a 'Hijabster'. I'm not the greatest fan of the term, but I think girls everywhere should be confident in their own skin and be inspired to look and feel good inside and out.
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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One of the stupidest things we ever did was to take creative departments out of the agencies.
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I'm very happy and very excited when my adrenalin is going.
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You are judged on your last game no matter how many you have banked.
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But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.
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You could say sorry," suggested Harry bluntly. "What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?" muttered Ron. "What did you have to imitate her for?" "She laughed at my mustache!" "So did I, it was the stupidest thing I've ever seen.
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The I is the soul, which endures.
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We need to dream big dreams, propose grandoise means if we are to recapture the excitement, the vibrancy, and pride we once had.
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not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life.
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We had no faith in (Cook) whatever. He was not even good for a day's work, and the idea of his making such an astounding claim as having reached the Pole was so ludicrous that, after our laugh, we dropped the matter altogether.
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
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We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since.
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A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government.
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The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.
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You cannot fail unless you quit.
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A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.
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Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.
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The obvious is always least understood.
