Oscar Wilde Quotes
You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.
Quotes to Explore
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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I usually listen to classic rock and roll.
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Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!
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Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.
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Even the relatively small amount of trans fats are likely to be causing around 7,000 premature deaths from heart disease per year.
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A great American city is fighting for its life.
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Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
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We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
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You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.
