Jules Verne Quotes
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If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.
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Tackling still comes down to leverage and owning that leverage and making your hits.
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Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
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I think it's important to surrender to situations that take you out of your comfort zone.
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Last night I was east with them And west within Trying to be for you what you wanna see.
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The wise man sayth, store is no sore.
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Now I was joking, so I hope everybody in Dallas - because I've got a lot of buddies there - I hope they all took it as a joke. But to anybody that didn't, I apologized.
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If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain.
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You want to put the fire out first and then worry about the fire code.
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I think they're all trying to see who can walk through the coldest or hottest shower. Not sure which.
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Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.
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As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; and some men think these are the only pleasures that exist, because they are the only ones which they know.
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No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.
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But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
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There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.
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When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.
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Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
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We buy things. We wear them or put them on our walls, or sit on them, but anyone who wants to can take them away from us. Or break them. ... Long after he's dead, someone else will own those stupid little boxes, and then someone after him, just as someone owned them before he did. But no one ever thinks of that: objects survive us and go on living. It's stupid to believe we own them. And it's sinful for them to be so important.
