Samuel Johnson Quotes
That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona.
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When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
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I have anonymously helped many thousands.
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Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important things.
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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No!
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People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.
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I think everybody can relate to loving somebody and them bringing out a wild side in you.
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I'm not difficult to work with, trust me.
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We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
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I'm not afraid of a big studio film; I trust my instincts. But for me, it's not really about box office. It's about looking back on your work and not having to apologize for it.
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Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year.
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If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.
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There were no wrestling schools in Ireland. It was completely unheard of.
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I haven't actually spoken to my parents since the hurricane.
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I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.
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As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
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Women know that we're not just strong. We're not just vulnerable. We are not just attractive or not attractive. We are many things at once, and we're able to see into that complexity.
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The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.
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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.
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That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona.
