Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?
Quotes to Explore
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.
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The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.
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Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.
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The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
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Dying is a wild night and a new road.
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The Affordable Care Act was passed in large part because of recognition that our nation's health care system is not working. The act is not perfect, but it is a starting point, and we have been using it to improve the health of Coloradans.
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'Step Brothers' is probably the film the most people who approach me want to talk about.
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Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?
