Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.
Anaximander
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There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
Gautama Buddha
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If the first half was a quest for success, the second half is a journey to significance.
Bob Buford
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Sleep away the years, sleep away the pain, wake tomorrow - a girl again.
Hal Summers
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Every day is like that, eight successive meetings on eight different topics, every one really important and interesting.
Peter Orszag
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The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that come into my head. And the less they understand, the more they admire it. By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.
Pablo Picasso
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How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?
George Eliot
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I like a lot of Tom Cruise's roles, he's this action hero.
Scott Eastwood
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When you are serving volunteer professional military, you take an oath to the Constitution, not to a policy or a president and you swear to obey the lawful orders of the democratically elected government. And so at the end of the day you could table your personal political views and do your job.
Nathaniel Fick
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
Walter Pater
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I think women should have what they determine to be a staple in their closet, because who's to say that my staple is someone else's staple? I'm this tall, and I live in this city, and I have to walk the kids to school, and I don't tend to drive as much - my life requirements are radically different than yours or hers or his. Staples are: What do you need? And then, what do you want? "Need" comes first, typically; "want" gets taken care of occasionally.
Sarah Jessica Parker
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Caregivers not only help keep arousal within manageable bounds but also help infants develop their own ability to regulate their arousal.
Bessel van der Kolk
