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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As a child, I saw my mother prepare for Christmas every year, and it never occurred to me that labor was involved. I thought it was my mother's joy and privilege to hang tinsel on the tree strand by strand, to make sure that every room in the house had a touch of Christmas, down to the Santa-themed rug and hand towels in the bathroom.
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I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.
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To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
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You look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden! Who would believe this, Sweden! They took in large numbers, they're having problems like they never thought possible.
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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.
