Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
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Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.
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We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.
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When you get older, 10 matches a year are enough.
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The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will.
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The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.
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Corruption exists because there is too much, not too little, market.
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The No. 1 problem in Hollywood was, and is, and always will be pedophilia.
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You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the deadly knowledge, is still kept secret. But, believe me, my friend, it is there.
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The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it's because we're engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves . . . as suppliants admitted to a shrine.
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The heritage of the American Revolution is forgotten, and the American government, for better and for worse, has entered into theheritage of Europe as though it were its patrimony--unaware, alas, of the fact that Europe's declining power was preceded and accompanied by political bankruptcy, the bankruptcy of the nation-state and its concept of sovereignty.
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In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
