C.P. Cavafy Quotes
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Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
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During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake. One of them was the National Republican Convention in San Francisco, which produced the greatest disaster the Republican Party has ever known - Nominee Barry Goldwater.
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I think it's really important to live in the moment.
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Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.
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The Purdue education was fine, but I wasn't ready to learn when I was at Purdue.
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People who write to 'Dear Abby' don't always have the most earthshaking problems in the world.
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Ultimately in the end, it's the director's choice.
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I've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent.
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I would say if you have a dream - and whether that is you want to be some sort of artist, or you want to start a start-up or a business, anything that very much feels like it's uniquely yours and you may not be able to get traction going through traditional channels - the way to do it is to build it brick by brick on your own in microsteps.
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If I never competed again, it wouldn't bother me. I don't care.
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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.
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Silence marks time, saturates and shapes African-American art. Silences structure our music, fill the spaces - point, counterpoint - of rhythm, cadence, phrasing.
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Never use your own money. Steal a good idea and say it's your own. Do anything to get publicity. Remember that everybody can be bought.
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I'm just a simple guy. I love being at my house with my family, I love playing dominos and card games and hunting and fishing. That's just what I like to do.
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I enjoy high-speed about-turns in thought.
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Above all, I believe every child, no matter their ZIP code or their parents' jobs, deserves access to a quality education.
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In the prepping for 'Azkaban,' I read 'Azkaban' and 'Goblet of Fire.'
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Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.
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I believe that what makes the psychedelic experience so central is that it is a connection into a larger modality of organization on the planet, which is a fancy way of saying it connects you up to the mind of Nature Herself.
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There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid.
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Several volunteers have been preparing for the evacuees since Thursday. The industrial-sized kitchen is stocked and the evacuees got a big meal last night upon arriving.
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Science is experimental, moving forward step-by-step, making trial and learning through success and failure. Is not this also the way of religion, and especially of the Christian religion? The writings of those who preach the religion have from the very beginning insisted that it is to be proved by experience. If a man is drawn towards honour and courage and endurance, justice, mercy, and charity, let him follow the way of Christ and find out for himself. No findings in science hinder him in that way.
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All great artists and thinkers are great workers.
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Arriving there is what you are destined for
