John Ruskin Quotes
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It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.
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I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
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Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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My 93-year-old grandma is a beautiful example of healthy living. She laughs a lot and always says, 'Just be yourself!' She also eats dessert every single day.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
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Living here in North America - I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have far less tolerance for in South Africa. We've come such a long way in terms of race relations and the economy as well as people's willingness to move on. There are still a lot of things that are frustrating about being in South Africa.
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I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
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I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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The Czech Republic is a dynamic United Nations Member State, active on the Human Rights Council, contributing to the peaceful settlement of disputes, and helping other countries to achieve a democratic transition.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.
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I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.
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For me personally, the technology that has taken the most unexpected turn in my lifetime is what I refer to as 'the device formerly known as the cell phone.' I still remember many predictions that by 2000 there would only be about a million cell phone users. Boy, were they ever wrong!
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I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.
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After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
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Great clubs have had one thing in common throughout history, regardless of era and tactics. They owned the pitch and they owned the ball. That means when you have the ball, you dictate play and when you are defending, you control the space.
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I am rather inclined to silence.
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The last act crowns the play.
