Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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High-energy collisions have led to the observation of many hundreds of new hadronic particle states. These new particles, which are generally unstable, appear to be just as fundamental as the neutron and the proton.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.
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I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.
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Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.
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I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.
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A great deal of American T.V. viewed on Hulu, which is superb - '30 Rock', for instance, is on very good form.
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This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind... let it be something good.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
