Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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I won the crown for what I am - I'm certainly not going to let go of that!
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[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.
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Okay, this was kissing. Serious kissing. Not just a kiss before moving out, not a good-bye, this was Hello, sexy, and wow, she’d never even suspected that it could feel this way.
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My backhand is definitely a lot more solid and consistent. There were times when I couldn't hit it into the ocean.
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Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.
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Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.
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The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.
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They [the people under you] may desire help, but more than anything else they desire sympathy. Don't make the mistake of turning such men down with the statement that you have troubles of your own.
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Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen for the grandest times are before us and the world is yet to see the noblest work of this old earth in the men that are to be.
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There's not a man in here that doesn't realize that Johnny makes us go. He's the catalyst.
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Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.
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Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man.
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Each of these dealers not only gives so much of their time and money to a wide variety of causes, but they encourage others in their communities to do the same. Their efforts are inspiring and we are very proud of them.
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God creates, not that there may be witnesses to render Him His due glory, but beings who shall rejoice in it as He rejoices in it Himself and who, participating in His being, participate at the same time in His beatitude. It is not therefore for Himself, but for us, that God seeks His glory; it is not to gain it, for He posses it already, nor to increase it, for already it is perfect, but to communicate it to us.
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Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.
