Winifred Holtby Quotes
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If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.
Oliver Sacks
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As self-driving cars become more common, there will be a flood of new legal questions.
Adam Cohen
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The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies.
Florentijn Hofman
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I gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I'm a winner. And if they don't, I'll open a bookstore.
Warren Spector
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We manufacture automotive components including critical engine and axle parts for passenger cars, diesel engines and medium & heavy commercial vehicles. Till 1997, our focus was almost entirely on the domestic market with a relatively insignificant portion of revenues from exports.
Baba Kalyani
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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop
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A university teaches. What does it teach? It must obviously teach all the languages in which the great literatures which have been preserved were written - Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, German, Scandinavian, and English.
Charles William Eliot
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It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.
Oswald Chambers
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Thou shalt not laugh, thou shalt not romp,Let's grimly kiss with bated breath;As quietly and solemnlyAs Life when it is kissing Death.
W. H. Davies
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Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
C. S. Forester
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Youth knows no remedy for grief but death.
Winifred Holtby