Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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We each take up one virtual space per title... Virtual shelf life is forever. In a bookstore, you have anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to sell your title, and then it gets returned. This is a big waste of money, and no incentive at all for the bookseller to move the book.
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One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.
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As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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I believe clothing tell a story.
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And not only that but... when the station is completed, there will be an international crew made of astronauts coming from different cultural experiences, speaking different languages, but working together for a common goal.
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The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy.
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I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Reform is born of need, not pity.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
