Virginia Woolf Quotes
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.
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I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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UBS have been important supporters of Tate Modern since 2000 and we are delighted to announce this exciting and unique partnership.
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The more you style, the better you get. Don't give up. At a certain point, the magic happens.
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My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.
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People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or something, when my writing really comes out of silence. If a storyteller came up to me, I'd run away.
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The way to write well is to live intensely.
