Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
Kangana Ranaut
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
Wallace Shawn
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
Yo-Yo Ma
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
Warren Bennis
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
Ingrid Newkirk
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I get homesick.
Larry Bird
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
Naomi Campbell
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
Callie Thorne
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
Ed Smith
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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
Verne Troyer
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
Zainab Salbi
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I still have a young attitude.
Pat Morita
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
Lady Gaga
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
Laura Mennell
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
Barack Obama
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
F. Sionil Jose
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Ethnic divisions can definitely be exacerbated by a lack of natural resources, but those tensions become violent when people manipulate them for their own political gain.
Dinaw Mengestu
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Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to "learn." What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying "Know thyself."
G. I. Gurdjieff
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Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney
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At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our salvation but our sin, no merit we bring but Christ's, and nothing necessary for justification except faith alone.
Kevin DeYoung
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The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace before the atomic age was announced to the world with the destruction of Hiroshima and before the Russian entry into war. ... The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military standpoint, in the defeat of Japan.
Chester W. Nimitz
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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
Petrarch