Cynthia Lord Quotes
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Things don't really impress me. Memories impress me. It's not the toys, it's the people.
R. A. Salvatore
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Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.
H. L. Mencken
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Our local department store had two Santas - one for regular kids and one for kids who wanted ten toys or less.
Milton Berle
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I think that the obsession with technique is a male thing. Boy's toys. They love playing... I would rather search for a new model or location.
Ellen von Unwerth
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Waves are toys from God.
Clay Marzo
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Will toys amuse, when med'cines cannot cure?
When spirits ebb, when life's enchanting scenes
Their lustre lose, and lessen in our sight,
As lands and cities, with their glittering spires,
To the poor shatter'd bark by sudden storm
Thrown off to sea, and soon to perish there?
Will toys amuse? No: thrones will then be toys,
And earth and skies seem dust upon the scale.
Edward Joseph Young
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Government is the most successful idea in the world, but for all its success and importance it is something imperfect. There is no ideal state. After thousands of years it is still a mixture of good and evil.
Elmer Eric Schattschneider
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I'm looking for a bunch of new tchotchkes that represent the new part of my life.
Sally Field
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In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.
Ferdinand de Saussure
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My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give what encouragement I can to the young musicians of America. I...hope that just as this nation has already surpassed so many others in marvelous inventions and feats of engineering and commerce, and has made an honorable place for itself in literature in one short century, so it must assert itself on the...art of music...To bring about this result, we must trust the very youthful enthusiasm and patriotism of this country.
Antonin Dvorak
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We had to work out how the world was going to be divided up and, using props and costumes, we had to stage a ten minute play.
Elizabeth May
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No toys in the fish tank
Cynthia Lord
