William Shenstone Quotes
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind.
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Kids are disorganized.
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I'm a terrible cook, but I make very good lobster salad.
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I don't want to be on the cover of Playboy or Vogue.
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I want to tell you how much I miss my mother. Bits of her are still there. I miss her most when I'm sitting across from her.
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I love a lot of people, understand none of them.
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Everybody likes Brazil and we want the Brazilians to come out.
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The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
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I could have quite literally snogged until the cows came home. And when they came home I would have shouted, "WHAT HAVE YOU COWS COME HOME FOR? CAN'T YOU SEE I'M SNOGGING, YOU STUPID HERBIVORES???
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My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.
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The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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The whole thrust of yogic philosophical and scientific inquiry has therefore been to examine the nature of being, with a view to learning to respond to the stresses of life without so many tremors and troubles.
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I need the information and then I can go. So, as long as I have the information and a little bit of sleep, I can do the rest.
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I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter.
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There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.
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Aja gave Loor an up and down once-over. She then said, "Is Loor a man's name or a woman's name?" Ouch. Loor answered, "It is the name of a legendary hero on Zadaa. A woman." Really?" Aja said. "What did she do that was so heroic?" She killed her enemies and ate them.
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Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.
