John Ruskin Quotes
There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have the power of learning French, Latin or arithmetic, in a decent and useful degree.
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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It's like the American democratic system. When you vote, even if your candidate doesn't win, you accept that democracy was in action. When people participate in a Tezos network, they're accepting that the democratic vote of the other coin holders will govern the way the protocol moves.
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
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A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
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Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
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The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.
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It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and that is just what we now never recognize, but think that we are to do great things by help of iron bars and perspiration. Alas! we shall do nothing that way but lose some pounds of our own weight.
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There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have the power of learning French, Latin or arithmetic, in a decent and useful degree.
