Oscar Wilde Quotes
And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.
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King Lear is undoubtedly the greatest play ever written by Shakespeare - or anybody else for that matter. Hamlet is certainly great, but it doesn't contain as many elements of humanity as we see in Lear.
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This big part flies off on the floor. The other part goes like this and lands in my foot! Standing up! It's standing in my foot! Right in the side of my foot. The flute glass. I think I'm like in one of my own pictures.
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Our obligations and loyalty should not be to a government that will not take care of our needs. Our obligations and loyalty should not be to a government that has proven time and time again that it is the enemy of the people unless the people are rich in dollars.
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Every human mind you've ever looked at … is a product not just of natural selection but of cultural redesign of enormous proportions.
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And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart.
