Oscar Wilde Quotes
How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
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Accidental stacks considered harmful.
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The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
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The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.
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The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.
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How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
