David Niven Quotes
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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Yes, our band will change and evolve, but we want to establish the reality of what this band truly sounds like.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.
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No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
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What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?
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I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.
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I would say this is not negative this is h, a hard part in gymnastics. You can't eat, whatever you want to eat. And what kind of meal you're supposed to have, you can't.
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The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.
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Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.
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Politics, I now understand, is at its best when it enlightens us via an opponent's insight.
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I thought-To lose all this forever?And I hallucinated Aenea’s voice saying To lose all this forever is the essence of being human, my love.
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Not a single thing do I remember from the first trip but this: the sense of the place, the savor of the genie-soul of the place which every place has or else is not a place...there it is as big as life, the genie-soul of the place which, wherever you go, you must meet and master first thing or be met and mastered. (4.3).
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Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
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Caress the detail, the divine detail.
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I was an only child. Growing up, we moved a lot, so I didn't have any close friends. So the animals I was around as a child - dogs, cats, and horses, and stuffed animals - became my family and friends. The only strong bonds I made as a child were with animals.
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I don't care what people think about me because I know I am more than all the pain and strife they hold inside.
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I wear a lot of different jewelry. I love to look for it when I'm abroad or if I find a great antique or vintage shop.
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You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.
