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You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: wy not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them?

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• I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Better
  • Persons

• You must always do what you feel is right.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • You
  • Always
  • Feel

• You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Life
  • Chance

• It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • People
  • Money
  • American

• Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Home
  • Travel
  • Personality

• Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Real
  • Power
  • Freedom

• I love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That's life.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Life
  • Security

• The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Action
  • Environmental

• I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Movies
  • Scary
  • Thrill

• Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Always
  • Through
  • Likes

• I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Summer
  • Winter
  • London

• There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Good
  • Music
  • Happy

• Billions have been spent for one purpose and one purpose only: to obscure and distract from the fact that Mitt Romney is backing the identical agenda George W. Bush did.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Purpose
  • Fact
  • Obscure

• I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Career
  • Feel
  • Successful

• There's a lot of thought that bitcoin will be a huge threat to existing tax systems or existing ways governments have of controlling currency flows across their border. I personally think governments will do what governments have always done: they will adapt.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • Done
  • Thought
  • Tax

• Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Election
  • Advance
  • Auction

• It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • World
  • Long
  • Imperialism

• There's a tiny number of Bitcoin wizards and an enormous number of smart developers that have no onramp to Bitcoin. We need to make that onramp easier.

  

  Balaji S. Srinivasan
  • Smart
  • Need
  • Number

• Let ya hair down and shake that shit, shake that shit, shake that shit.Sweat it out, go nuts in this bitch.Dip it, spin it, and watchin' my hips;I see you watchin' my hips.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Hair

• As a private person, I am maybe more 'Eurovision' than Kasper Juul.

  

  Pilou Asbaek

• I was in the playground, like, 'Let's imitate the Spice Girls and form a girl group!' I would go home and sing into my hairbrush and act like Britney Spears. I was no Mozart.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Home
  • Girl

• I have two mini dachshunds, Lola and Charlie.

  

  Jason Day

• Love is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it. Love is also the seed and milk and the fruit of the world, though we can partake of it in greed or reverence. We are born, we eat, and learn, and die. We leave a tracery of messages in the lives of others, a little shifting of the soil, a stone moved from here to there, a word uttered, a song, a poem left behind. I was here, each of these declare. I was here.

  

  Michael O'Brien
  • Song
  • Moved
  • Messages

• You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: wy not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them?

  

  Xunzi
  • Opportunity
  • Expectations
  • Initiative