Edmond Jabes Quotes
Wound me . . . I can only feed on my humiliated blood.
Edmond Jabes
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright
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I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
A. J. Jacobs
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde
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The damage caused by corruption is just as real in Angola and Azerbaijan as it is in Atlanta and Albuquerque, and it's our obligation to advance the rule of law wherever our laws apply.
Sally Yates
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The fame of Maria Foote's beauty and charm of manner had reached London, and in May 1814, she made her first appearance at Covent Garden Theatre and personated Amanthis in 'The Child of Nature' with such grace and effect that the manager complimented her with an immediate engagement.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.
Natalie du Toit
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I thought it was a very cute song. I just picked them out because I liked them. I wasn't trying to make any statements.
Wanda Jackson
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The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'.
Benoit Mandelbrot
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It was too vast a problem to be just a personal thing. There should be some help, someone should tell them before it was too late. Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then, and wouldn’t be so quick to judge a boy by the amount of hair oil he wore.
S. E. Hinton
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Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'
Orlando Bloom
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Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
Euripides
