J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break.
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go from braids, to weaves, to wigs, to natural hair.
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The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
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Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
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The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.
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I find British men very gentlemanly... like opening doors. There is a certain chivalry about British men which I like, and I'm a sucker for an accent.
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There are terrible things going on in the world, but I am not going to force them down everyone's throats.
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The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.
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Regardless of nationality, all men are brothers. God is "our Father who art in heaven." The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is unconditional and inexorable. ... The lowly Nazarene taught us the doctrine of non-resistance, and so convinced was he of the soundness of that doctrine that he sealed his belief with death on the cross. ... When human law conflicts with Divine law, my duty is clear. Conscience, my infallible guide, impels me to tell you that prison, death, or both, are infinitely preferable to joining any branch of the Army.
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The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break.
