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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I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.
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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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Success, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
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A cow couldn't find its calf in this room.
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Inside the Party, Stalin has put himself above all criticism and the State. It is impossible to displace him except by assassination. Every oppositionist becomes ipso facto a terrorist.
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With faith and gratitude to Allah the almighty, I declare that tomorrow, Thursday May 1, 2014, will see the enforcement of sharia law phase one, to be followed by the other phases.
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Zoologists seem to consider the cerebration of cats and dogs about 50-50 -- but my respect always goes to the cool, sure, impersonal, delicately poised feline who minds his business and never slobbers.
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The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.
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With the magnitude of the challenges we face right now, what we need in Washington are not more political tactics, we need more good ideas. We don't need more point scoring, we need more problem solving.
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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.
