William Wycherley Quotes
Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.
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Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.
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There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
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Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
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I have a love for boxing.
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And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.
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We set up a small bitcoin and ethereum mining operation... that miraculously now is actually making a lot of money.
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The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
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When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that.
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My name is Zach Galifianakis and I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I'm named after my granddad, my middle name. My name is Zach Granddad Galifianakis.
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A sexy shoe is one that men like.
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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
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If you look at us as a company, what's the one thing that's consistent? It has to be the biggest, the best, the greatest. My father, over the years, has bought some of the best mansions of the world. It's just something he loves.
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Be natural and use your head.
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Of what's to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing's troubled: the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them, and they listen reverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing whatsoever.
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Lord, for the erring thought Not unto evil wrought: Lord, for the wicked will Betrayed, and baffled still: For the heart from itself kept, Our thanksgiving accept. For ignorant hopes that were Broken to our blind prayer: For pain, death, sorrow, sent Unto our chastisement: For all loss of seeming good, Quicken our gratitude.
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Lyra and her dæmon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.
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Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.
