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?
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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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Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.
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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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Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?
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It's one-of-a-kind, because some people would die to have the family I do.
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Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.
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I have certainly seen my share of the world as it really is and not how I wish it would be.
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My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
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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?
