William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley Quotes
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
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I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.
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I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.
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We are so focused on the material aspects of life that we lose sight of everything else.
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Investigate what is, and not what pleases.
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I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.
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I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.
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Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.
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I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.
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I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.
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Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.
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No one's a virgin, life screws us all!
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The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.
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Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.
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The law of chastity is not a negative proposition, but a positive one because in its observance there are spiritual values that far outweigh the physical dangers that we often emphasize. I believe the chances are that our children will respond to the positive attitude quicker and more thoroughly than they do to the negative. Let's show them the values that there are in that law.
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Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
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Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
