Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
For out of olde feldes, as men seith, Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere; And out of olde bokes, in good feith, Cometh al this newe science that men lere.
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
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I really do see the sharks evolving their perspective. In the early days of the show, if you brough them an app, they would've turned their noses up. But now they know how indispensable those apps are, even to their own traditional businesses.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.
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An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.
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It's the occasion that makes the revolution.
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For out of olde feldes, as men seith, Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere; And out of olde bokes, in good feith, Cometh al this newe science that men lere.
