William Hazlitt Quotes
The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.
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The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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I love 'The Guardian' series. Bianca St. Ives is one of my favorite heroines ever, and the combination of action, suspense, and romance makes her story pure fun to write.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.
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Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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Some part of life – perhaps the most important part – must be left to the spontaneous action of individual impulse, for where all is system there will be mental and spiritual death.
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There is no waste in functioning natural ecosystems. All organisms, dead or alive, are potential sources of food for other organisms. A caterpillar eats a leaf; a robin eats the caterpillar; a hawk eats the robin. When the plant, caterpillar, robin, and hawk die, they are in turn consumed by decomposers.
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Anytime I had a date, it was at the Sadie Hawkins Day dance.
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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.
