Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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I don't like controversy.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.
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If you make a fashion mistake, that's one that's going to resonate for a very long time.
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Used games allow more people, specifically younger people, to become game fans because of the lower price point.
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I don't get it: they re-package the same shitty football games every year, update a few stats, call it a new game and millions of suckers keep buying them. What's the point? Why not just go outside and play real football instead? Or even better yet, get bent. Nobody likes football.
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Then again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.'
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
