John Dalton Quotes
Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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The Internet is a toilet. It is.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.
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I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.
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But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.
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I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.
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The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
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Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.
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Speech at the Nobel Banquet (10 December 1979).
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Every time he makes plans for his future, he seems to fail. Every time he reaches forward, the world leans against him, pressing him down.
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This is your baby. Go do it.
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Economic systems rise and fall just like empires. That's the kind of perspective we need to take if we hope to prosper for centuries rather than for the next quarter.
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Come, evening, once again, season of peace; Return, sweet evening, and continue long! Methinks I see thee in the streaky west, With matron step, slow moving, while the night Treads on thy sweeping train; one hand employ'd In letting fall the curtain of repose On bird and beast, the other charged for man With sweet oblivion of the cares of day.
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Beyonce's music is like lipstick or a decidedly tall pair of heels: It's empowering.
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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
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Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel.
