W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.
Quotes to Explore
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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The next step in my life is hopefully meeting a nice guy and getting married.
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I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
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In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
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Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
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But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.
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I've spent more money on my theatres since I bought them than I did buying them.
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I gather inspiration from all aspects of my life and things I see: love, heartache, mistakes, hopes, regrets, successes and faith. And it helps to have a wild imagination.
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I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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During the Obama years, the Republicans have done an unprecedented amount of stonewalling on cabinet-and-below appointees. I would also argue that their war on judicial nominees has been way beyond what went before. Really, if the president nominated God to serve on the D.C. Court of Appeals, Mitch McConnell would threaten a filibuster.
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Only the Catholic Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.
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Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
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Just because I'm playing on the other team doesn't mean I'm this pathetic human being who's begging to be loved.
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Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.
