Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
When he talked of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff,He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
D. H. Lawrence
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I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet.
Sam Worthington
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I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.
Candice Bergen
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The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
Utkarsh Ambudkar
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I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.
Rainn Wilson
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These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.
Imran Khan
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Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.
Pankaj Mishra
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I've worked out for years. For a long time, it was my only sense of gratification.
Vin Diesel
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The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves.
Tadao Ando
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I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American.
J. C. Watts
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
Salman Rushdie
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Recognizing the good, not just in one's own personal circumstances, but in the world, makes anything possible. When I am asked about the important characteristics of leadership, being of good, positive mind is at the top of my list. If a leader can focus on the meritorious characteristics of other people and try to play to their strengths as well as find value in even the most difficult situation, she can inspire hope and faith in others and motivate them to move forward.
Wilma Mankiller
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Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Then they began to say: 'Yes, but how can we know what is God's Word, and what is right or wrong? We must learn this from the Pope and the councils.' Very well then, let them conclude and say what they please, yet I will reply, you cannot put your confidence in that nor thus satisfy your conscience, for you must determine this matter yourself, for your very life depends upon it. Therefore God must speak to your heart: This is God's Word; otherwise you are undecided.
Martin Luther
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We lived together as kids, and now we're taking care of each other as men.
Aaron Neville
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You know how when people lose their grandma or grandpa, people they say they're sorry? They do mean it, but... there's nothing to say. There's a void that cannot be filled.
Amaury Nolasco
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When he talked of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff,He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff.
Oliver Goldsmith
