Jules Verne Quotes
The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.
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I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
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When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
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Scott Brown is a superstar. Scott Brown won a race that nobody expected Republicans to even be competitive in, and he was able to do it at a time when nothing else going on, so he captured the attention of conservatives across the country.
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All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.
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How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?
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Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine.
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She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.
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The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of remarkable Christian forbearance among men-were it not for a mawkish humanitarianism, coupled with imperfect digestive powers, we should devour our young, as Nature intended.
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I hear from higher up that China seems to be succeeding on many fronts – engineering, commerce, hotels, agriculture - everything. In many ways, don’t we need to take them as a model example for us?
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My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.
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I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.
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I spent my life figuring out ways to make the room OK with me.
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Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.
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There is more to the game than hitting it far. There are ways to make birdies other than hitting 350-yard drives. I pride myself on a good short game; I work very hard at it.
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We can move water easily with plastic pipes. We can move shade around with nursery cloth like a tinker toy for animals and plants. Yet we have developed this necessity to grow food with chemical fertiliser because we have forgotten the magic of manure.
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Try to take your vision and ego as far away from the song as possible. Give as much respect as you can to the song and the initial inspiration.
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I suggest that, if India is to evolve along nonviolent lines, it will have to decentralize many things. Centralization cannot be sustained and defended without adequate force . . .Centralization as a system is inconsistent with non-violent structure of society.
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People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
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Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.
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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
