Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.
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The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.
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A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.
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As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.
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My father always told me, 'Before you become a queen, you have to learn how to take care of your own things.' So I knew how to do all of it, but I had never really done it on a daily basis. So I was cleaning houses, and I started working restaurants.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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There's a secret sauce in California, and I hope people pay attention to it.
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This is very intriguing to think we should audit the Fed, but I discovered that probably if they audited the Fed, it would get a clean bill because it's undoubtedly doing exactly what it's supposed to do according to the law.
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The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid does.
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The myth of my solitude makes me laugh.
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I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.
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I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.
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I love what Alabama Shakes is doing - it's kind of like what grunge did to rock 'n' roll, they're doing to R&B.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
