Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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I'm just writing a story that I want to read.
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I am not a man in decent shape.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.
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The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.
