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'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
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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'm not the king in my own house. I have to wash the dishes and take out the trash and say, 'Yes, baby.' I'm 6-foot-5, but I kind of walk around hunched over.
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There's a lot of room for error with a wound in the rear. It's a wide target.
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'Llonio said life was a net for luck; to Hevydd the Smith life was a forge; and to Dwyvach the Weaver-Woman a loom. They spoke truly, for it is all of these. But you,' Taran said, his eyes meeting the potter’s, 'you have shown me life is one thing more. It is clay to be shaped, as raw clay on a potter’s wheel.'
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Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
