Oscar Wilde Quotes
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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Nobody wants to give up good players.
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The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home.
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He's a bully. I love bullies. They have such big, shiny red buttons to push.
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A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
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I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper.
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Globalization has genuinely drained power away from national politicians and people feel it. People in our fast digital age are also frustrated with the comparably slow democratic processes. Many young people - and some old people - want to know, Why does everything take so long? Why can't someone just decide and then move forward?
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Always keep love in your heart.
