Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
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Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'
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I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
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I cook chicken for a living.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.
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What about that Dave Brubeck live album, with a version of 'Like Someone in Love' on it, and long sax solos by Paul Desmond? That's what got me hooked on jazz.
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From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers' industries.
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She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice cream.
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Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.
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We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
