John Dryden Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Snobbery just inhibits you.
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In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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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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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices.
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I don't think my father considered allowing a teenager to follow his dreams was necessarily good parenting, or even parenting. I think he thought I was a teenager with teenage impulses. I'm pretty sure he knew that if he just let me follow those impulses, it would wind up being very expensive and perhaps even life-endangering.
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For me, the real thing is make, serve and list in India. Which means we need manufacturing, we need services, and we need financial markets.
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'One should always be skeptical. That’s always been our problem. We have too many believers.''Believers in what?''In everything.'
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A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.
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All That You Can't Leave Behind and How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb are both really mad long titles. As I've just said them, I've just realised how ridiculous the titles are.
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Che quella che da l'oro e da l'argentoDifende il cor di pudicizia armato,Tra mille spade via più facilmenteDifenderallo, e in mezzo al fuoco ardente.
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If you die, I will lie down beside you and I will stay there until the end, without eating or drinking, you will rot in my arms and I will love you as carcass: for you love nothing if you do not love everything.
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The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.
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A selfie is a sort of interesting way to reclaim the gaze, right? You're looking at yourself and taking a photo while looking at everyone. But also, who cares?
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I'm not a big fan of doing it because I get really frustrated because I can't do any of the tricks, but I love to watch magic.
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Democracy relies on free speech. Yes, say anything you want, but it relies even more on the speech being truthful. It is the truth, after all, that sets us free.
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I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.
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As for the herbal cigarettes, for the most part I don't smoke as much as the guys do. I'm usually just strutting around a bit more so I don't actually have to be inhaling it. I'm lucky because I do have scenes where the cigarettes work beautifully to punctuate certain things I'm saying.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
