William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.
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The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.
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Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.
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It certainly is a situation of great delicacy but, at the same time, one in which it would seem I hold fifty per cent of the bargaining power in order that the Duchess and I can plan for the future in the most constructive and convenient way.
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The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greatest part of skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.
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The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.
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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
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I survived many a youth hostel bunk room reading Tolstoy by flashlight.
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We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.
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The movies are not my first priority - the theater is.
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I think the building is in very good condition.
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Together, we are prepared to lay a foundation for a more secure future for the entire world
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I have recently observed and stated that the serum of normal people is capable of clumping the red cells of other healthy individuals... As commonly expressed, it can be said that in these cases at least two different kinds of agglutinins exist, one kind in A, the other in B, both together in C. The cells are naturally insensitive to the agglutinins in their own serum.
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All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.
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I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world. May your villages remain ignorant of tax collectors, and may your sons be many and ugly and strong and willing workers, and may your daughters be few and beautiful and excellent providers of love gifts from eminent families that live very far away, and may your lives be blessed by the beauty that has touched mine. Farewell.
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Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing.
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I leave everything to the young men. You've got to give youthful men authority and responsibility if you're going to build up an organization. Otherwise you'll always be the boss yourself and you won't leave anything behind you.
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And every single dollar in these bands got a blue face Diamonds in the Rollie, they in HD like it’s Blu-Ray The way that I been ballin' should make the cover of 2K Show out for the summer I might pull up in a new Wraith
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I never thought I'd love nude lipstick, but I really do. I just feel sexier. Less is definitely more.
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Farewell - farewell, For I am weary of the weight of time.
