William Butler Yeats Quotes
Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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Samsung has drastically altered the rule that big screens mean huge phones. Even this smaller of the new Galaxy S models has a larger screen than the biggest iPhone, but it's much narrower and easier to hold and to slip into a pocket.
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Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
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You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
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The greatest filmmakers are not the ones who put everything in; they're the ones who can figure things to leave out, and in doing so, invite your participation.
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With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.
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You know what we should do? We should just put flags on everybody. Let's make it the NFFL - the National Flag Football League. It's unbelievable.
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In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.
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'Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do, it costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of people in sometimes very significant ways. There are many university research projects, proof of concept publisher demos, and new platform test beds that have leveraged the code. Free software that people value adds wealth to the world.'
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
