Eugenio Montale Quotes
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
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By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden.
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We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.
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It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.
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I've had Republicans come to me and say, 'Tell me how I should talk to young people!' as if it's some foreign language or something.
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I thought about cricket a lot. I needed to get out of this bubble of mine. I found it in books and conversations with other people about other things. I was a curious person, and this was my release. I like being challenged intellectually. I hated at the end of the day to talk cricket to someone else.
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It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.
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Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.
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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.
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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
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The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.
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A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.
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Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good.
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Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful.
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I think we're great. I think we've still got it. And I think we've got something to give to people. And I think in times like this we can uplift people. We're doing it for ourselves, I'm not gonna lie. We wanted to announce our reunion the day after the riots, but it was important to play together before we announced it.
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Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
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I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
