Oscar Wilde Quotes
When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.
Oscar Wilde
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
Karen Hesse
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
Rakul Preet Singh
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Joanne Rowling
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
Pat Buchanan
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
Park Chan-wook
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The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
Albert Benjamin Simpson
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Two heavyset, rough-looking men were arguing about politics, and he was struck anew by a thought he used to have often when he lived here: there is no such thing as a French tough guy. A French tough guy, even if he’s tough as nails, speaks French, and therefore isn’t very tough at all. These men looked like boxers, but they were speaking a feminine language and sipping daintily from tiny espresso cups. Schiller, six-foot-something and wide, always felt terribly manly in France, the land of fragile men.
Brian Morton
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My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
Samuel Hoffenstein
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We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.
Manal al-Sharif
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Cisco has never and will never work with a foreign government of any type for the purpose of restricting political speech.
Charles Giancarlo
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When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.
Oscar Wilde
