Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.
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I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Drink lots of water and stay hydrated.
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We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
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State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
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One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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To me, the truth is what actually happened. Yet it is impossible to know anything approaching the whole truth about past events. Even the people living them could not possibly understand. That truth is always out of reach.
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I had some great high points and thought: 'This is fantastic. I'm going to be a huge star.' Then something happens, and you can't get a job to save your life.
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Even if religion and morality are dismissed as illusion, the word 'Ought' still has sway.
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If you think a certain thought long enough and hard enough, it becomes a fixed belief and you will find yourself behaving on the outside in a manner consistent with it.
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People should think about e-mail as something where they are archiving their lives.
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True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.
