Catherine the Great Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.
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If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.
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My biggest fear is that a paparazzi or someone ... is going to come in my backyard and see me when I get in my pool. That would be very unfortunate.
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The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer.
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The great advantage the telephone possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.
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When you're in other people's country you don't speak your own language out of respect. You don't need to speak.
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It's nice to invest yourself fully in whatever you're doing... I think it's best to try and give everything you've got; otherwise, what's the point?
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I've been evaluating how much I value happiness in my life. To be too driven takes away your happiness.
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The man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but does not know God, ends in despair...the knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course because in him we find both God and our own misery. Jesus Christ is therefore a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.
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Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity.
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When you're entrusted with a tradition, you've got to protect it.
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Em reminds me of one of my friends from back home. It was just so natural. I forgot in two seconds that he was the biggest-selling artist of the decade. He knows what he’s doing. Me and him mixed the song together and he’s not like somebody that’s telling somebody what to do. We were both on the board turning knobs. The atmosphere and the vibe down there was just super cool.
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People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.
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I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.
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You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.
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If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame.
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When character is lost, rules and punishments cannot take its place.
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I am a spiritual person living in a human body, not a human body with a spirit.
