Will Durant Quotes
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I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.
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I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
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A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.
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The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed.
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I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
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Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?” "...I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning." "Well reasoned.
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New and emerging infections keep coming back and the world needs a collective defense system, and that requires international cooperation and collaboration, in the name of global solidarity.
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Because I am so intensely identified with opinion and analysis and contextualization, I think I just need, for my own psychological benefit, a small island in which I can stand and say, 'I'm going to sit this one out.'
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The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.
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The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.
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Remember this: Anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.
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If you can find a passion at a young age, somewhere between fifteen and thirty, if you can find that passion, I can pretty much guarantee you that you can be sixty-five and still love that passion and still have a reason to dance out of bed and down the hall every morning.
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Always remember that you are bigger than the moment, you are more than anything that could ever happen to you.
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When I look in the mirror, I see a work in progress.
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I am not really wicked. Love me, and you will see.
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It has been a whirlwind really, it all happened so quickly! I auditioned for Australian Idol for the 3rd time... to see where I was and if I had improved with my singing; and the next thing I knew in the final 12 and it went nuts from there - I walked straight off stage at the finals into a press conference and didn't have a days rest 'till New Years Day.
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Music is organized sound.
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We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.
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So here are reasons why I talk to strangers: because I never know what might happen, because the world is full of surprises; because the very thing I am most worried about might turn into the thing I need most.
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Awakening is usually precipitated by the honest, sincere, inquiry into who you really are.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
