Oscar Wilde Quotes
Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.
Quotes to Explore
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
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I believe we're the party of small business.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
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Countries have made impressive pledges to cut carbon pollution, but we have to ensure these promises become actions.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.
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The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world.
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If things go wrong and you hit a dead end-as you will-it's just life's way of saying it's time to change course.
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Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life.
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When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements tend to develop a desire to act in accordance with these principles and to do their part in institutions which exemplify them
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Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.
