Oscar Wilde Quotes
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It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
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'Hell is for Children' is amazing to do every night and 'Promises in the Dark' and 'Love Is a Battlefied,' of course, but my absolute favorite would be 'Heartbreaker.' It's the one that started everything, so it has a very special place in my heart. And it still rocks every night! It's so fun to do.
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When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
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I love vintage cowboy boots, and some days I'm into platform stilettos encrusted in jewels. It's really all over the place.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.
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I won't tell anyone where my favourite place in Scotland is... but it might be somewhere on Skye.
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Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.
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I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.
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I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.
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It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.
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Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
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Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
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Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t see.
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But if we hide ourselves away, afraid to grow and learn, we might wake up in the flames of the ignorance that burns and we'll never be much more than only casualties of war in a struggle we can't win if we have no faith to begin. We've got to tip the lid and let some sunlight in.
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Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
