William Shakespeare Quotes
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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Salesmen always need something to sell.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.
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But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
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The best thing a society can do is ensure its children are taken care of.
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Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.
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Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
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Every man is a poet when he is in love.
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Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.
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Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by.
