Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes
This world is a vaporous jest at best, Tossed off by the gods in laughter, And a cruel attempt at wit were it, If nothing better came after.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.
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Bloodshed kept pace with iron production: in essence, the entire paleotechnic period was ruled, from beginning to end, by the policy of blood and iron. The brutal contempt for life was equalled only by the the almost priestly ritual it developed for inflicting death. Its 'peace' was indeed the peace that passeth understanding: what was it but latent warfare.
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There's something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can't help getting in sync.
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Their problem was how to adapt English principles and precedents to the new conditions of American life, and they solved it with singular discretion. They put as many obstacles as they could contrive, not in the way of the people's will, but of their whim.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.
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This world is a vaporous jest at best, Tossed off by the gods in laughter, And a cruel attempt at wit were it, If nothing better came after.
