Sydney Smith Quotes
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.
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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.
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The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
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Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.
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There's nothing I hate more than gritty, linty, mysterious pocket schmutz in the cap of my lip moisturizer - or, even worse, on the applicator itself. I shudder at the thought.
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At the end of the day, you know yourself best.
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My mother felt we'd be earning a living during our entire adult lives, and therefore believed we should spend summers in learning activities. Consequently, I got to see a plate glass factory in Pittsburgh, a U.S. Steel plant, and how Heinz made ketchup.
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No authentic Messiah would inspire a religion that ended up calling upon the Jews to reject the manifest meaning of Sinai. It is really that simple.
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I would stay two years in San Francisco, then move to New York in the summer of 1991, for the love of a man who lived there. When I arrived in New York, I had a job waiting for me, courtesy of a bookstore I'd worked at in San Francisco, A Different Light. They had a New York store as well, and arranged an employee transfer.
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If you had to put people, senators - if they had to go for their V.A. to get care, it would probably get fixed.
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There is no shame in preferring happiness.
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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
