Edmund Spenser Quotes
No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd.
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It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.
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Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.
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No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
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The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.
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Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
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Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.
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One reason why upturns follow downturns is that downturns tend to overshoot. People get panicky, they're afraid to stay the course, so they start selling. The other thing is that I think, as entrepreneurs keep on waiting to produce new things, that there's an accumulation of as-yet-unexploited new ideas that keeps mounting up.
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I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.
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'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.
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Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then?
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Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.
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Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.
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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
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Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.
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I have forgotten much, but still rememberThe poinsiana's red, blood-red in warm December.
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After World War II, a lot of people moved to the cities for work and abandoned the old vineyards. Then in the 1950s and 1960s, wineries were paid to produce volume at a cheap price. That's when the Lambruscos and bad Chianti were popular.
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I always save a few special outfits for the final rounds of a tournament, because they put me in a more positive mindset and I then make better decisions.
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Walk away from your own preoccupations . . . and see the perishing multitudes.
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Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded by crumpled paper, the computerized writer has his mistakes neatly stored in digital memory.
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A kind of racism still exists in the United States, and Islamophobia is a more convenient way to express that sentiment. There has also been an attempt to paint Muslims as enemies of the United States.
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No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd.
