H. G. Wells Quotes
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
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I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.
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You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me.
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When you lose your freedom, you are alone with your emotions and reactions... you can see, for example, the bad reactions you have in front of others or the way you could be dismissive or harsh.
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History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man.
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Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives.
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I was always a total ham, but my dad really taught me that.
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The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
