Edith Wharton Quotes
In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
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Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.
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Whenever someone says something bad about you, just confront them on it and just be a man and own up to it. If you said something you shouldn t have said, and it's important to somebody you need to talk to, you need to go talk to them. Be a man. Step up.
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I don't know my armpit from my elbow in Los Angeles.
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In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.
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I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?
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If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.
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Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.
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I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.
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The image I had was that Oprah books were fluffy.
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The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.
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George Bush is just as much in the dark as I am, and it scares me.
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The world's most deadly disease is 'hardening of the attitudes.'
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By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent. – page 97.
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A common and not necessarily apocryphal example portrays a solo practitioner starved for business in a small town. A second lawyer then arrives, and they both prosper.
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It takes more than industry to industrialize.
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The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
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I have this problem in the rebirthing community because it's so powerful sometimes, I get thrown out because people want to do things a certain way and they are just not open to new ideas, so they don't want me to come around.
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The concept of absolute, hence or whence springs, in the moral field, the moral laws or norms, represent, in the field of knowledge, the principle of identity, which is the fundamental law of the thought; norms of logic springs from it, that govern the thought or mind in the field of science. ("Le concept de l'absolu, d'où découlent, dans le domaine moral, les lois ou normes morales, constitue, le principe d'identité, qui est la loi fondamentale de la pensée; il en découle les normes logiques qui régissent la pensée dans le domaine de la science.")
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If you ask me what I think about going to work every day, it's 9/11 and preventing another 9/11. There were too many people I knew.
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In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.
