Arthur Waley Quotes
You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay.“
Quotes to Explore
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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Sometimes my schedule doesn't allow time to go to the hotel after I get off the plane, so I bring my Freebird boots or my old school Adidas shell-toes to throw on after I land.
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Tahir Pasha assigned me a room when I was staying in his residence, and every night before sleeping, I would spend around three hours going over the books I had memorized. It would take me three months to go through the lot. Thanks be to God, all those works became steps ascending to the truths of the Qur'an.
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America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.
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I saw women that were repressed. When they're in classes with young men, they shut up all the time. They're laughed at if they have unusual ideas. They have to be sexy; then, they can't really think.
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I love the smell of a real Christmas tree - also, my mum's Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.
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I sometimes like to watch a good, dark, disturbing movie.
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The idea of losing your best friend, basically, is the worst thing in world.
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I have a system with bathrooms. I spend a lot of time in them. They are sanctuaries, public places of peace spaced throughout the world for people like me.
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You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay.“
