J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
Frodo drew himself up, and again Sam was startled by his words and his stern voice. 'On the Precious? How dare you?' he said. 'Think! Would you commit your promise to that, Smeagol? It will hold you. But it is more treacherous than you are. It may twist your words. Beware!
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
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It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.
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Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
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I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.
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I'm constantly hydrating my hair.
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I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.
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Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.
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Eating vegetarian in the past would have been a really bad choice as an athlete. Impossible. Just being able to get the amount of protein in was a mission. You couldn't be picky. I feel quite liberated by the fact that I can now quite recklessly choose vegetarian food.
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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I buy clothes that have repeat value.
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The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
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Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.
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The thing about the intuition is that there's always a calmness to it, if it says yes to us or even if it says no. It's always very calm and a feeling of wisdom comes with it.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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I pray you to believe what I have said about Buchenwald. I have reported what I saw and heard, but only part of it. For most of it I have no words. If I've offended you by this rather mild account of Buchenwald, I'm not in the least sorry.
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Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid; had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.
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Frodo drew himself up, and again Sam was startled by his words and his stern voice. 'On the Precious? How dare you?' he said. 'Think! Would you commit your promise to that, Smeagol? It will hold you. But it is more treacherous than you are. It may twist your words. Beware!
