Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
F. Murray Abraham
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
Edmund Phelps
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
Katha Pollitt
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The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
Hans Blix
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
Aaron Neville
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
Valerie Plame
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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.
Rachel Stevens
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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
Ralph Adams Cram
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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.
Washed Out
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For the most part, I do a lot of my own stunts. On 'The Final Destination,' they kept pulling my stunt woman in, and I'd shoo her away. I'm a black belt in tae kwon do, so I was adamant about doing stuff myself.
Haley Webb
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
W. Clement Stone
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
Rachel Kushner
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
Maeve Binchy
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
Laura Harring
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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
Mae West
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
Sam Walton
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
Calvin Johnson
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I'm not a computer girl.
Sandy Duncan
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Only love can keep anyone alive...
Oscar Wilde
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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
John Lennon The Beatles
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Love without attachment is light.
Norman O. Brown
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
Basil Bunting
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Petrarch