William Butler Yeats Quotes
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. This was where I discovered 'Encyclopedia Brown' and 'Nancy Drew,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Rebecca.' This was where I became inspired to be a writer.
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I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.
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It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
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I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.
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A goal is a dream with a deadline.
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It's always been a dream to be in a beauty campaign. Anything that can show girls they can look ethereal at any size.
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School is at its best when it gives students the expectation that they will not only dream big, but dream dreams that they can work on every day until they accomplish them-not because they were chosen by a black-box process, but because they worked hard enough to reach them.
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Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?
