Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.
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We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
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Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.
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When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
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I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
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We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets.
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I was terribly shy, but I was always in harmony when I was dancing.
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We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from - and with - each other.
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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
