Christine de Pizan Quotes
If you would reflect well and wisely, you would realize that those events you regard as personal misfortunes have served a useful purpose even in this worldly life, and indeed have worked for your betterment.
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Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
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Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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My goal isn't to shock.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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The best thing you can do for your body is sleep. It's simple. Cater to your body as much as to your mind. Your body, after all, houses your mind. You have to pay attention to your physicality as much as your mentality.
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I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belonged where I was, so I went to live overseas.
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If the books are selling, the money will follow.
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The physical carrier is overshadowed by a relation. The relation creates an overtone. The physical carrier is absorbed by this overtone. The overtone spontaneously transforms the means of creation into a spiritual reality. The mystery of creation is then revealed.
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Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to any thing but power for their relief.
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Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
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I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.
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Marvel is really about the stories of Peter Parker and Bruce Banner or Jessica Jones. These are - I'm hesitant to say the word, but - real people with real problems whose power comes, to use the great expression, with great responsibility.
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I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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I think pets are a good thing, especially if you get them out of a shelter.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.
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If you would reflect well and wisely, you would realize that those events you regard as personal misfortunes have served a useful purpose even in this worldly life, and indeed have worked for your betterment.
