Sydney Smith Quotes
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
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I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.
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I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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I love taking chances.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.
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Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.
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Shakespeare is universal.
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Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?
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I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.
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I always thought I was going to be a great poet, and go and live in New York, where the great poets lived - you know, where Whitman had walked the streets.
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I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.
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Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
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Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life? The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it.
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To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
