William Dampier Quotes
The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.
William Dampier
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I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.
Ralph Fiennes
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The starting point for the new history, both in Europe and America, has been the record of births, marriages, and deaths, which most literate societies preserve in one form or another. In colonial America, surviving records of this kind - as of every other kind - are most abundant for New England.
Edmund Morgan
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I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
Isaac Asimov
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I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.
Taylor Phinney
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The older I've gotten, the more I try to stay out of the gym.
Geoff Stults
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Let the designer lean upon the staff of the line - line determinative, line emphatic, line delicate, line expressive, line controlling and uniting.
Walter Crane
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Having financial independence does not increase one's chances of independent, artistic creation whatsoever. Our conditioned behavior toward mimicry for the sake of market forces is an amazing syndrome. The watchtowers guide us well.
Fady Joudah
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Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.
Jay-Z
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Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
Louise Erdrich
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I think the best way to control a population is to urbanize and to educate women. We have seen historically in many, many countries that once women are educated and have opportunities, and that happens when they live in cities and once they improve their economies, they no longer want to have eight kids.
Ian Bremmer
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You ever read an article, and at the bottom, it says, 'Continued on page six'? I'm , 'Not for me. I'm done.'
Jim Gaffigan
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There's been improvement in a lot of areas. It's not 100 percent, and not every hotel is doing well, but we can take some comfort in that improvement.
John Bacon
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I've lived history. I've made history, and I know I'll have my place in history. That's not egoism.
John G. Diefenbaker
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Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire,
Begin it with weak straws.
William Shakespeare
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The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.
Jack Adams
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Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.
Don McLean
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The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry
The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy
The books that people talk about we never can recall
And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.
Carolyn Wells
