Thomas Harris Quotes
What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
Orison Swett Marden
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Once, when I tried to calculate the height of the balcony, I broke my arm. Another time, I wanted to see if water moves faster than kerosene. When my father came out to smoke, a fire broke out.
Ada Yonath
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We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.
R. C. Sproul
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She's the quiet type who's into heavy metal.
Billy Joel
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I complain about my life. I used to complain about boys or not being able to drive or failing a test. Now I complain about boys, not being able to drive, and leaving home so much.
Gabourey Sidibe
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Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face. Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge.
Bahá'u'lláh
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You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
Abraham Lincoln
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Life is a child moving counters in a game.
Heraclitus
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I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.
Plato
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The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
William Hazlitt
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I've studied golf for almost 50 years now and know a hell of a lot about nothing.
Gary Player
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Hinduism is not a codified religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Our senses are always part of the process.
Agustin Fernandez Mallo
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Life is too short to be unhappy in business. If business were not a part of the joy of living, we might almost say that we have no right to live, because it is a pretty poor man who cannot get into the line for which he is fitted.
George L. Brown
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I speak Italian, French, Creole and English.
Meta Golding
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.
Nikolai Gogol
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I have talked to more people who are in politics who have said to me, "[House of Cards] is closer than you can imagine. It's the most accurate description of how politics actually works that we've ever seen." I mean, West Wing - beautiful, wonderful idea of how democracy should work. But I've had more people in politics say they think House of Cards is closer. I - don't know whether to take that as a compliment or a sad state of affairs.
Kevin Spacey