Samuel Smiles Quotes
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Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.
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I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.
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I'm not interested in celebrity.
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I had great stats in my career, you know, but really, you want to win.
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A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy.
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It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.
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When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.
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Win pretty, win ugly, just win.
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O poeta é um fingidor.Finge tão completamenteQue chega a fingir que é dorA dor que deveras sente.
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To play vinyl onstage is not my thing. For me, vinyl is for home listening.
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If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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Cheese was the staple. Bread you brought from home. The Schnaps came later. At the end of the week when people got paid, that's when you got your Schnaps, lots of it, five Pfennige a shot.
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Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.
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Not many teams will come to Arsenal and get anything, home or away.
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If there's one thing I can't stand, it's not being noticed.
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For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island.
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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.