Catherine the Great Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
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The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.
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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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My passion is capturing what it feels like to love, be it romantic or otherwise. I love to watch two people realize what they meant for each other - and that goes across all media, books, TV, movies, personal essays; everything.
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A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.
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The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.
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No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.
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The will to do, the tenacity to overcome all obstacles and to finish the course, the strength to cling to inexorable ideals, are all rooted in courage.
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There aren't that many galleries in Havana. There are a few state galleries and an ever-increasing but still limited number of independent galleries; there's no comparison with the number in New York.
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I just like movies, not one particular kind or genre. In fact, movies that are harder to classify I like more.
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By healing our internal divisions and fully accepting ourselves as we are, we learn to accept and empower our sexual core, and we learn to honor our unique expression of Masculine and Feminine gifts. We fully incarnate in our bodies, at home and at ease in a man's body or a woman's body. And we learn to love with complete abandon, as free men and women, without rules or roles or guarded hearts.
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When the problem is worry, the prescription is prayer.
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Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne.
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A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.
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It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.
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Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.
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It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
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Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.
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I praise loudly. I blame softly.
