William Butler Yeats Quotes
Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
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Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.
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I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect.
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I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.
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Friends, I was pretty sure, lift their friends up; they don't weigh them down like a sack full of stones
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Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way.
