Mary Astell Quotes
'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.
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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
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We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
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Obviously, you want to help the team win in any way possible. If that's scoring goals, great.
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The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
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I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it.
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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.
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Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
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Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.
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I had two jobs coming out of school: I did a play, 'The Great White Hope.' I played the boxer Jack Johnson. And I was the lead in this indie film. Then I moved to Los Angeles because New York was cold and it was really too quiet for me at that time. I was out of school; I was hungry. The auditions were trickling in, and I was antsy and ready to go.
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Different people have different views of the Taj but it would be enough to say that it has a life of its own that leaps out of marble, provided you understand that it is a monument of love. As an architectural masterpiece, nothing could be added or substracted from it.
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Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
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I am hell-bent for the South Pole - God willing and crevasses permitting.
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If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
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Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.
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'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.
