Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
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If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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Reform is the mission from which we shall not digress; it is an expression of belief and determination between us and our people. With the help of Allah, we will proceed forward in this promising national process within the natural progress of the life cycle and the development of people and nation.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
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It's funny where life can take you.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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Fast food is the one thing everyone can relate to. It's depressing, but also interesting, that people desire to eat the same sandwich in every single city in the world. But the biggest bummer is when you see a Subway in Berlin. Just devastating.
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The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is?
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To quote Helen Lewis the journalist, ‘the comments on any article about feminism justify feminism’.
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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
