Oscar Wilde Quotes
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It should not be the government running the economy.
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I want Barack Obama for president. I love Obama. I call Palin the helicopter huntress from hell! I want my children to have a wonderful future, and it's disturbing when I look around. Americans aren't very well-liked. A likable president would be a great start.
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To back away from fear is the worst thing you can do. Fear shows.
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The judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, as both should be checks upon that.
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I never say no.
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One of the biggest hurdles about Foursquare is you need to remember to use it.
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Some people like you, some people don't. In the end you just have to be yourself.
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My idea of a good time abroad is to visit someone's house and hang out, poking into their cupboards if they will let me.
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By calling GMOs 'poison' and 'evil,' Bill Maher poisons the well of reasoned scientific discussion with ideologically driven fear mongering.
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A drug is a substance which, if injected into a rabbit, produces a paper.
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I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.
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Have you ever walked down the streets of New York and been given the right of way? It's an amazing feeling.
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Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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I wasn't trying to do a play or do what Kevin Spacey did. I was trying to do my own thing.
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Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They seek service for themselves.
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The key is to photograph your obsessions, whether that’s old people’s hands or skyscrapers. Think of a blank canvas, because that’s what you’ve got, and then think about what you want to see. Not anyone else.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.
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The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
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The garden is the place I go for refuge and shelter, not the house. In the house are duties and annoyances, servants to exhort and admonish, furniture, and meals; but out there blessings crowd round me at every step -- it is there that I am sorry for the unkindness in me, for those selfish thoughts that are so much worse than they feel; it is there that all my sins and silliness are forgiven, there that I feel protected and at home, and every flower and weed is a friend and every tree a lover. When I have been vexed I run to them for comfort, and when I have been angry without just cause, it is there I find absolution. Did ever a woman have so many friends? And always the same, always ready to welcome me and fill me with cheerful thoughts. Happy children of a common Father, why should I, their own sister, be less content and joyous than they?
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Mixed Martial Arts is a dangerous practice that could result in injuries and loss of life.
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The Sahara was a spectacle as alive as the sea. The tints of the dunes changed according to the time of day and the angle of the light: golden as apricots from far off, when we drove close to them they turned to freshly made butter; behind us they grew pink; from sand to rock, the materials of which the desert was made varied as much as its tints.
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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
