Carl von Clausewitz Quotes
Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
Quotes to Explore
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I hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I felt suffocated - not like I was some grandiose artist; I just felt like an alien.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.
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Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
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Most people don't know how to tell stories.
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When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
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A great ratatouille is one in which the vegetables interact with each other but are still discernible from each other. The trick is to cook them just right: not over, not under.
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Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
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My next-door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration.
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I have a record of wanting to make sure that campaigns are open and financing is fair, but it can't just be one sided.
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People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.
Gail Devers
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Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
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For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know.
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I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.
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You can forgive yourself a great deal.
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I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered.
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Flying over New Orleans on our approach, I got it. There was no view of land without water - water in the great looming form of Lake Pontchartrain, water cutting through in tributaries, water flowing beside a long stretch of highway, water just - everywhere.
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I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.
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There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.
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If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait for someone in a cubicle halfway across the country to decide if you're worthy.
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Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever.
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Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
