Simon Bolivar Quotes
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
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Can America continue down the path President Obama is taking us on, to a time soon and certain when a majority of wage-earners pay no income taxes but a majority of citizens receive federal benefits?
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Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
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We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
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Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.
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Everybody tries to score a great goal, and I am lucky I have netted a few.
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We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.
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I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.
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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
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Western media only intensified the climate of fear and insecurity
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If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.
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If I'm a bank, and I'm making risky loans, I have an incentive, if I can, to make those loans using other people's money: in other words, to make highly leveraged loans.
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I think people need something to believe in, because they don't want to have control over their own lives. They'd rather be able to blame it on an unknown being, or a greater god, or a greater spirit of sorts. And I think it's easier for them to blame it on that.
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I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is.
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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.
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A people that loves freedom will in the end be free.
