Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
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I don't think I've ever been haunted by a ghost, but I always joke with my fiance about the house we're living in right now. It seems to have something in it.
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I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.
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An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit.
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One of the things I wanted to do with my own books was bridge the gap between 'Goosebumps' and adult horror.
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As a young kid, I spent a lot of time exploring the world around me. I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of wheat, the patches of trees, along the railroad tracks, and on red dirt roads.
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If you just focus on making singles, you lose the personality of the record. Because everything is not meant to go to radio.
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Each hour until we meet is as a birdThat wings from far his gradual way alongThe rustling covert of my soul.
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Don't let anybody infiltrate your dream
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A lot of times people say, 'As soon as you relax you'll have a kid.'
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When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a certain sense of loneliness engendered by traveling leads one to reflect upon the meaning of life, for life is after all a travelling from one unknown to another unknown.
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The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.
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Manye chapeleyns arn chaste, ac charite is aweye; Are none hardere than hii whan hii ben avaunced: Unkynde to hire kyn and to alle Cristene, Chewen hire charite and chiden after moore - Swich chastite withouten charite worth cheyned in helle.
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The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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There's only one way to work -- like hell.
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I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.
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I am certainly intrepid and splendid and sordid and strong; I can see why you'd want me! But I'm afraid I've left the kettle on or whatever it is people say when they're bored.
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Nevertheless, his moustachios are splendid.
