Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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I'm very content.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I get notes posted on my windscreen wipers and through my letterbox.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.
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The animal rights cause is something close to my heart and something I truly believe in.
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I'm very protective of my heart
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Bars are meeting places and places to unwind. But at some point, what is culture unwinding from, and why can't they meet anywhere else?
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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive...
