Victor Hugo Quotes
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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.
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The movement toward a holistic approach to community development has been long in the making, but the housing crisis has motivated further progress.
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That's when I got my guard down. He was okay with going to my office and meeting people and being seen. That's how he got me.
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Love... love... love, never counting the cost.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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I've got soul and I'm super bad.
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How dare you ever in ya life walk past me without acknowledging their man as God.
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Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
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Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.
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Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.
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Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.
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Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.
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Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
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One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and don’t know they know... Once the breakthrough is made, there is a permanent expansion of awareness. But there is always a reaction of rage, of outrage, at the first breakthrough... So the artist, then, expands awareness. And once the breakthrough is made, this becomes part of the general awareness.
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Yeah my money's so tall that my Barbie's gotta climb it
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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
