Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
Miguel de Unamuno
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
Edmund White
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
Adam Brody
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
Mal Peet
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
Adam Dell
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
Dan Brown
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I am not thinking about life after football, but I know it will be another life, another world.
Francesco Totti
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If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?
Warren Farrell
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When ISIS and al Qaeda have attacked or plotted attacks in the West in the past decade or so, they have invariably used hydrogen peroxide-based bombs because acquiring military-grade explosives or dynamite is nearly impossible for would-be terrorists in Western countries.
Peter Bergen
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Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.
Bruce Coville
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A war on Al-Qaeda could have been won with a decisive military strike in Tora Bora during December 2001, but American fighters at Tora Bora were refused requests for more forces when they trapped Al-Qaeda there; the Pentagon was busy husbanding resources for the Iraqi invasion.
Kurt Eichenwald
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When I was younger, I used to drive up to a bunch of turkeys, roll down the window and say something. They'd all gobble back at once.
Levon Helm
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I like to give my daughter some rope and let her make her own decisions.
Jason Bateman
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Fear Allah, for He alone lives; all other things are liable to perish.
Umar
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I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation-- of all the sacrifices that ennoble us most. A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes.
Jane Austen
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Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.
Erica Jong
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They don't call me spontaneous and irreverant for nothing.
Kathie Lee Gifford
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Many scammers are only using personal checks for payment because they can take the money and run.
Matthew Lesko
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Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
Miguel de Unamuno
