Peter Daniell Doherty Quotes
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You know you're getting fat when you step on the dog's tail and he dies.
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True friends will pick you up when you fall. The bad friends will have been the one who made you fall in the first place.
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Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon.
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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
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When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate.
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Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.
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If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed.
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I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.
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The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.
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Riots are the voices of the unheard.
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It sometimes looks as though woman would not be woman unless man insisted upon it, since she tends so markedly to be just a human being when away from men, and only on their approach does she begin to play her required role.
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No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes
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How can the mind be so imperfect?" she says with a smile. I look at my hands. Bathed in the moonlight, they seem like statues, proportioned to no purpose. "It may well be imperfect," I say, "but it leaves traces. And we can follow those traces, like footsteps in the snow." "Where do the lead?" "To oneself," I answer. "That's where the mind is. Without the mind, nothing leads anywhere." I look up. The winter moon is brilliant, over the Town, above the Wall. "Not one thing is your fault," I comfort her.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them.
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Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.
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I’m vain because I’m imperfect.
