Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.
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In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.
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Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.
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Fredo Lampe. Am Rande Der Nacht. For me, name and title evoked those lighted windows from which you cannot tear your gaze. You are convinced that, behind them, somebody whom you have forgotten has been awaiting your return for years, or else that there is no longer anybody there. Only a lamp, left burning in the empty room.
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No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes.
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When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.
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Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.
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I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.
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We had a blowout on our hands in the third quarter and we never recovered from that.
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I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.
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Don't let your excuses stand in the way of achieving your dreams
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I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.
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I want in all cases to do right.
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The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.
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Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.
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I wanted to counter apathy and blandness. I wanted to shock homogenized minds with the experience of writing at high voltage. I wanted the press to assert relentlessly literature's importance. I wanted the press to be a national press and of national importance.
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A lot of people felt that I was just tying that into the "I Want Your Sex" theme because of the AIDS thing and the prospect of the song's being banned. I thought it was a relevant point to make because of the AIDS thing. I wanted to write a song which sounded dirty but which was applicable to someone that I really cared about. That was my point.
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I've never really considered packing my suitcase and heading to Hollywood.
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She had a sadness that was so deep, but it still could turn to light in a second, and when I saw her smile I wondered what it would be like to make her smile. I thought... I thought it would be like the discovery of smiling.
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In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
