W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
The modern clergyman has acquired in his study of the science which I believe is called exegesis an astonishing facility for explaining things away.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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My responsibility is to follow the law.
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It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite know how to explain it. You see the uniqueness of what you've been doing, and disassociating yourself from it and going back to the 'normal' life is tough.
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Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty
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That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
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*Race! It is a feeling, not a reality: ninety-five percent, at least, is a feeling. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today. Amusingly enough, not one of those who have proclaimed the 'nobility' of the Teutonic race was himself a Teuton.
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So before I start work on a book, I'm like a pregnant mole - I obsessively tidy and order my closets and everything in my study. Because there's such a cascade of images and ideas that I'm grapping with mentally, I couldn't also be in a chaotic setting.
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The modern clergyman has acquired in his study of the science which I believe is called exegesis an astonishing facility for explaining things away.
