W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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John McCain... looks like a fraud to me.
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I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.
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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
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No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.
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While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.
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I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.
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When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
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Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I relate to the world.
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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
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A philosopher is someone who says, 'We know it's possible in practice; we're trying to work out if it's possible in principle!'
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Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet - whom Plato banned from his Republic - may rise up to save us all.
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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
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You really only know when you know little. Doubt grows with knowledge.
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Sir, I just think that's it's fucking brilliant that you somehow managed to tie Chuck Norris, Chewbacca the Wookie, and Jesus Christ together.
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One great worker equals three not-so-great workers, so it's worth paying terrific people not just for today but to find people that we think have upward mobility to become tomorrow's leaders.
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I like seeing what the comedian thinks is funny, not just what they think I'll think is funny.
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It would be nice to create something that's healing rather than slightly creepy and darkly judgmental!
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That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have.
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I want doctors to treat toward health and not treat toward disease.
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I'd like to give every member of our cast a best supporting comedy Emmy.
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I believe that the United States as a government, if it is going to be true to its own founding documents, does have the job of working toward that time when there is no discrimination made on such inconsequential reason as race, color, or religion.
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You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
