Cecil Rhodes Quotes
When people praise you, don't let it go to your head. When they criticize you, don't let it go to your heart.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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I love books.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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Of course we are coming to invest in Germany - that is certain. Most airplanes in the fleet of Qatar Airways are from Airbus.
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I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.
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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
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I'm saying there's plenty of money out there for great consumer entrepreneurs with great consumer products attacking really big markets.
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Within that awful volume liesThe mystery, of mysteries!
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Only a dad with a tired face,Coming home from the daily race,Bringing little of gold or fameTo show how well he has played the game;But glad in his heart that his own rejoiceTo see him come and to hear his voice.
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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
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I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.
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I can remember being fascinated by what people really thought about each other and what they were really doing to each other behind people's backs.
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People forget that there are villages and communities that are still speaking French all over Canada. I went to a bar and spoke with some French people there, and they were saying: 'I went to English school, but at home it was always French, and that's going to be the way it is for my kids.' It's important for them to keep that language alive.
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When people praise you, don't let it go to your head. When they criticize you, don't let it go to your heart.
