William Butler Yeats Quotes
The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.
William Butler Yeats
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
Barbara Kingsolver
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
Foster Friess
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
A. C. Benson
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I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.
Usain Bolt
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
Val Kilmer
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
Larry Brown
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
Rachel Perry
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
Yiannis Chryssomallis
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I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
Fawn Hall
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
Walter Smith
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
T. E. Hulme
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
Adam Draper
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
Nathan Myhrvold
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
Landon Donovan
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
Garry Trudeau
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
Ignatius of Antioch
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Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
Hanya Yanagihara
