Paulo Coelho Quotes
We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.
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A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.
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With the juice, I try to put a lot of different kinds of vegetables in there like zucchini, kale and broccoli. It looks scary, but it's so good for your body, and I just love the taste of it. It's so fresh; I love it!
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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Good material is good material.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
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For us here in Washington, we must never ever stop asking God for the wisdom to serve the public according to His will.
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I think that Mary Baker Eddy was a fascinating character in American religious history.
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As Narcissus fell in love with an outering (projection, extension) of himself, man seems invariably to fall in love with the newest gadget or gimmick that is merely an extension of his own body.
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Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.
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We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.
