Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza
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I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for dinner. When you travel a lot, you feel rootless and adrift - this is my sanctuary, where I can breathe out.
Bat for Lashes
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The best way for women to get into cycling is to go out in a group, to feel like you're part of it.
Laura Trott
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A guy like Benoit, he's really good and a lot like Dynamite. Dynamite, just because he was the original, was the best. But, you know, Benoit now is by far better. Dynamite Kid is nothing now.
Owen Hart
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A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.
Naveen Andrews
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Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.
Karen Finerman
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Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I couldn't defend myself.
Tanya Tucker
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The heart is the best reflective thinker.
Wendell Phillips
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It is very hard for me to switch from clay to grass.
Marat Safin
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I would say divorce, breaking up, being a child of divorce, any of those things are always very challenging.
Talia Balsam
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Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
Carlos Santana
Santana
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On the rare occasions when U.N. blue helmets have made the news in the past, it has unfortunately too often been in the context of situations where peacekeepers have failed to shield civilians, or even when the peacekeepers themselves have been involved in abuse.
Samantha Power
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Most Authors cringe and flatter and Fish for compliments. If they fail to get Applause, they say the World is a Scurvy Place and those who dwell therein a Dirty Lot: if they succeed, they give thanks to Nobody, saying they got only what their Meritt entitles them to. But I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.
Elbert Hubbard
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Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened in the past.
Bill Bruford
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Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.
Harold Prince
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I will never have a problem working with anybody. I will even work with a man if he dresses up like a woman, because it's my job. I am here to act.
Ranbir Kapoor
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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Plato
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I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
