Samuel Johnson Quotes
Goldsmith, however, was a man who whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do.
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As I've always said: The future lies ahead.
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I don't drink hot beverages.
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If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.
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I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
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In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
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I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.
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What I love about my job is challenging myself and finding weird, different roles.
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I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.
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In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.
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How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?
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I like everything I do to have some kind of meaning.
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The wise will determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable from sensibility to oppression; the high-minded from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
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C'est une maladie naturelle à l'homme de croire qu'il possède la vérité directement…
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A sense of utter loneliness-loneliness inevitable, crushing, eternal, the loneliness of existence, encompassed by the infinite void of unconsciousness-enfolded him as a pall. Life lay like an incubus on his bosom. He shuddered at the thought that death might overlook him, and deny him its refuge.
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We say in popular speech that we come into this world, but we do nothing of the kind. We come out of it. In the same way as the fruit comes out of the tree, the egg from the chicken, and the baby from the womb, we are symptomatic of the universe. Just as in the retina there are myriads of little nerve endings, we are the nerve endings of the universe.
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The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task.
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Rush Limbaugh is a has-been hypocrite loser, who craves attention. His right-wing lunacy sounds like Mikhail Gorbachev, extolling the virtues of communism. Limbaugh actually was more lucid when he was a drug addict. If America ever did 1% of what he wanted us to do, then we'd all need pain killers.
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Earth-worms abound in England in many different stations. Their castings may be seen in extraordinary numbers on commons and chalk-downs, so as almost to cover the whole surface, where the soil is poor and the grass short and thin.
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I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it.
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You hope your buddies will win so you don't have to loan them any money.
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From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand that they might provide a relatively simple entry into a problem as complex as cancer.
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Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along.
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I wasn't a bad guy. I just wanted God to give me a second chance.
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Goldsmith, however, was a man who whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do.
