William Congreve Quotes
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!
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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No longer to be Self, to experience the peace of an emptied heart, to experience pure thought-that was his goal.
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I have an old brain but a terrific memory.
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Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15.
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Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.
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Marriage advice to Dan Pfeiffer in Yes We Still Can, chapter 9, (19 June 2018); as quoted in 'Barack Obama says these are the three questions you must ask someone before you marry them', by Narjas Zatat, The Independent, (7 July 2018).
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O, she is the antidote to desire.
