Christina Stead Quotes
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There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.
Arnold Friberg
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An organization is great if you have a clear vision to be able to make it powerful. If you don't, an organization can kind of sap energy that could go elsewhere.
Ben Wikler
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I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.
Vanilla Ice
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde
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Spoken of the young Archimedes: . . . [he] was as much enchanted by the rudiments of algebra as he would have been if I had given him an engine worked by steam, with a methylated spirit lamp to heat the boiler; more enchanted, perhaps for the engine would have got broken, and, remaining always itself, would in any case have lost its charm, while the rudiments of algebra continued to grow and blossom in his mind with an unfailing luxuriance. Every day he made the discovery of something which seemed to him exquisitely beautiful; the new toy was inexhaustible in its potentialities.
Archimedes
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.
Anthony Trollope
