Samuel Smiles Quotes
Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
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This man who was my father's age hit me hard on my head when I was 17. I started bleeding. I took out my sandal and hit his head hard, and he started to bleed, too.
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I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.
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After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation.
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At some point in our life, each of us is very likely to be a care getter or a care giver or both.
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One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.
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It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to them, because some questions take forever to make sense. Sometimes waiting for a question to finish is like watching someone draw an elephant starting with the tail first. As soon as you see the tail your mind wanders all over the place and you think of a million other animals that also have tails until you don't care about the elephant because it's only one thing when you've been thinking about a million others.
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Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
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Your love keeps me afloat but will remain the anchor in my soul... I don't really have words to describe how romantic I find that. Your love is what keeps me going, but it's also the anchor that keeps me close to you. I love it!
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I wanna meet the person who wrote the Burlington Coat Factory thing, but that's cool. I would love to understand it more, but everything is good.
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It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.
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All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.
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I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.
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We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race.
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God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.
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In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.
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Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.
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Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
