John Ruskin Quotes
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.
John Ruskin
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It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
Rabindranath Tagore
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If you want my answer about Donald Trump, you can Google it. It's everywhere. They've got this new thing called Google.
Larry Hogan
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As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.
Nancy Reagan
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I come from a council estate in Tower Hamlets, and by no means am I the only person who has done well - one of my friends is head of year in a great school in Twickenham. Another is a writer; another is an artist, a musician.
Eddie Marsan
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I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.
Daniel Defoe
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Human beings can imagine situations which are different from those in front of their eyes... because they make and hold in their minds images for absent things.
Jacob Bronowski
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It was thinking about Casagemas's death that started me painting in blue.
Pablo Picasso
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'You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both'
Kate Chopin
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Backbite, v.t. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.
Ambrose Bierce
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Memory, out of the mist, in a long slow rippleBreaks, blindly, against the shore.
Alfred Noyes
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I love Gwen Stefani. I'd watch what she'd wear over and over again and think, 'How do I nail this style?' And then, I like that classic beauty, too. Audrey Hepburn, she's so elegant.
Yuna
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My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred.
Frank Carlucci
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Westly, Westly, Westly, Westly, Westly,--darling Westly, adored Westly, sweet perfect Westly, whisper that I have a chance to win your love." And with that, she dared the bravest thing she'd ever done: she looked right into his eyes. He closed the door in her face.
William Goldman
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I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
Natasha Trethewey
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I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people.
Naomi Scott
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If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.
John Ruskin