Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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Examine the history of China for 2,000 years back, and then compare it with the Western history of fifty years! Does the government of these foreign countries present such a record of generosity, benevolence, loyalty, and honesty as ours?
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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What a publication can do is to help people get a clearer picture without jumping to any rash conclusion. I'm very happy that the 'Post' can take the responsibility to report on China in a broader and deeper way. I believe the 'Post' must be fair to our readers. We should let our readers see China from more angles and perspectives.
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People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
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There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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I would say the consumer Internet companies - in a lot of ways, if you go inside the consumer Internet companies and you see how they run, it's how all their businesses are going to run.
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But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn't, there was something wrong with the material, or with you.
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You know what a woman's curiosity is.
