William Falconer Quotes
The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.
William Falconer
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Hong Kong people say Hong Kong needs to preserve its uniqueness. I say Hong Kong's uniqueness is in its diversity, its tolerance of difference cultures... China does not want to see Hong Kong in decline. I have full confidence in its future.
Jack Ma
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I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.
Patrick Swayze
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It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
D. H. Lawrence
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Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.
Abba Eban
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If Obama's enormous symbolic power draws primarily from being the country's first black president, it also draws from his membership in hip-hop's foundational generation.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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If it doesn't have that element to it, it doesn't really attract me.
Keanu Reeves
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It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration.
Albert Benjamin Simpson
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I think sexiness in most people - and this is going to sound superficial - is definitely something you don't plan.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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I'm very much bigger than I was, so what? It's not really fatness, it's development.
Anita Ekberg
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Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.
Alicia Keys
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We tend to have mixed feelings about the holy. There is a sense in which we are at the same time attracted to it and repulsed by it. Something draws us toward it, while at the same time we want to run away from it. We can’t seem to decide which way we want it. Part of us yearns for the holy, while part of us despises it. We can’t live with it, and we can’t live without it.
R. C. Sproul
