Dorothy Dix Quotes
There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.
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The Louvre stopped buying paintings in 1848, and neither the Metropolitan nor the Hermitage acquire contemporary material.
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A chaos of mind and body - a time for weeping at sunsets and at the glamour of moonlight - a confusion and profusion of beliefs and hopes, in God, in Truth, in Love, and in Eternity - an ability to be transported by the beauty of physical objects - a heart to ache or swell- a joy so hoyful and a sorrow so sorrowful that oceans could lie between them.
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Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.
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For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.
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The Universal Declaration... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...it not only crystallizes the political thought of our times on these matters, but it has also influenced the thinking of legislators all over the world.
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There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.
