Jose Rizal Quotes
Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.
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The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.
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The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
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The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes.
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...We need to strive to keep things in proper balance. Good balance comes in doing things in a timely way and in not procrastinating our preparation or waiting to fulfill our responsibilities until the last minute.
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When I cruise around, I can't help but study people's faces and emotions and wonder why they're feeling the way they are.
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Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.
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A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.
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People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?"
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Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.
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Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue.
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Ain't nothin' wrong with the aim, just gotta change the target.
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When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.
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If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry will decline, just as a population which does not give birth will eventually dwindle.
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My first love was singing and I had no time for boys.
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The Open Society of Athens In democratic Athens of the fifth and fourth centuries BC, Greek civilization reached the apex of creativity. Perhaps alone among the Greek communities studied in this book, the classical Athenians demonstrated their ample endowment with every one of the ten characteristics that defined the ancient Greek mind-set. They were superb sailors, insatiably curious, and unusually suspicious of individuals with any kind of power. They were deeply competitive, masters of the spoken word, enjoyed laughing so much that they institutionalized comic theater, and were addicted to pleasurable pastimes. Yet the feature of the Athenian character that underlies every aspect of their collective achievement is undoubtedly their openness—to innovation, to adopting ideas from outside, and to self-expression.
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All around me is cowardice and deceit.
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Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.
