Alfred the Great Quotes
All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things.
Quotes to Explore
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I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
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Whether you're a Democrat or Republican, I want everyone to know that I'm here. We'll talk; we'll visit.
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I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.
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I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.
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Being in love is the best thing in my life.
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Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.
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I was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, a few days after the end of the Second World War. Both my parents had left school at a very young age, unwillingly in my father's case. Yet both had deep effects on my education, my father influencing me toward measurement and mathematics, and my mother toward writing and history.
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For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say, 'Oh, my God. Demetri, you're working at the White House.'
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Robert Ludlum, all of them, write the absolute best they can. You can't tone it down. You just do what you do, and if it comes out literary, so be it.
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Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.
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Sean Penn has never become the lighter, laughing guy.
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All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things.
