H. G. Wells Quotes
Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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From the RBI side, the fake Indian currency note is an important issue that needed to be addressed. The other collateral benefits from this, in terms of greater accountability, better public finance, more transparency, are, by definition, areas that take time to fully play out.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.
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For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality.
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When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself. Florentino Ariza, Love in the Time of Cholera...
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The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.
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To seek the highest good is to live well.
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I did a lot of studying of great writers. I read that Hemingway rewrote 'The Sun Also Rises' 39 times.
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Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.
