Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
Petrarch
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
Usain Bolt
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
Natalie Cole
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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
Origen
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
Salman Rushdie
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You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.
Callie Khouri
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
Zubin Mehta
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Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.
Ed Smith
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I don't mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven't really thought about it since then. I don't go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I'm in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don't really think about it very much.
Taylor Swift
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To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.
Larry Flynt
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If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.
Oliver Sacks
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I don't watch much television.
P. J. O'Rourke
