Nikki Gemmell Quotes
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The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.
H. L. Mencken
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Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
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A council to a magistrate, who is himself responsible for what he does, are generally nothing better than a clog upon his good intentions, are often the instruments and accomplices of his bad and are almost always a cloak to his faults.
Alexander Hamilton
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In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness.... The expanses are so great that the little man hasn’t the resources to orient himself.... This is what I think about Russian suicides.
Anton Chekhov
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I'm so blessed with my baby. And I want the most normal life possible for him. And I'll manage, I will create that.
Britney Spears
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Canadians are the best, they're the best.
Brody Jenner
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It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me...if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me.
Helen Keller
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Scoring a lot of points is great when you win, but when you lose it doesn't matter.
Reggie Lewis
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When I'm on Faro, I'm never lonely.
Ingmar Bergman
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I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you're not expecting it.
Alan Alda
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Suffering should always open the door to wisdom.
Nikki Gemmell