Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
Loke who that is most vertuous alway, Prive and apert, and most entendeth ay To do the gentil dedes that he can, And take him for the gretest gentilman.
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I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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Good design should be honest.
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.
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Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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We're not a fragile people. We're not a frightful people. Our power doesn't come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don't look to be ruled.
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You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
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Being a typical Briton, I love my home comforts and always try and find an English pub where I can tuck into some traditional English food, accompanied by a nice pint. Fortunately, I haven't been ill with food poisoning or anything like that, which is quite surprising considering how many different types of food I eat when I'm travelling.
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We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.
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I think the behavior of the troops has been a huge factor in the rise of the insurgency and in the rise of the anti-American feelings there[in Iraq].
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Every time you answer the phone, someone is crying, someone is raging, someone is begging you to solve their problems.
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Around here, manana seems to be the busiest day of the week. We never seem to get there.
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The war is always going badly.
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Any disease could be healed in a matter of days - any disease - if distraction from it could occur and a different vibration dominate.
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Loke who that is most vertuous alway, Prive and apert, and most entendeth ay To do the gentil dedes that he can, And take him for the gretest gentilman.
