Virginia Woolf Quotes
We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.
Quotes to Explore
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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We can help show data on how much the kids can improve when their home life changes a little bit.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.
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I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.
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It is good to be a cynic-it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world-we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death-the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.
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Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One (1748), as quoted by Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Chapter II: The Spirit of Capitalism, 1905. 12, 3
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There is an opportunity to recreate the financial world as we know it in the parallel universe that is the blockchain. We are writing rules for this whole new universe.
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
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I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
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We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.
