Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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The future or the past - It's very simple: building the future, or a restoration of post-communism.
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You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.
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Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding this eulogy, I soon found that the mass of plain porter bears an unsatisfactory relation to its toxic content and I subsequently became addicted to brown stout in bottle, a drink which still remains the one that I prefer the most despite the painful and blinding fits of vomiting which a plurality of bottles has often induced in me.
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We always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others.
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The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.
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Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.
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When it hurts to look back, and you're afraid to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.
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For all my love little monsters i am your mom you are my child in my hand i protect you like my eyes but dont worry ill cacth you if you fall.
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One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.
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The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.
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I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is, unjustified. The dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the uncanny reaction of the human nervous system to certain factors which are unknown to us at this time.
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I remember reading about the astounding number of people in this country who die within three years of retiring, which proves to me that if you lose the sense that you are producing or contributing in some way, you literally lose the will to live, and that if you do have a reason to hang on, you will.
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Our education system has succeeded so far in teaching generations to do different routine tasks. So when tractors displaced farming labor, we taught the next generation to work in factories. But what we've never really been good at is teaching a huge number of people to do non-routine creative work.
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His hands as he worked were deft and sure, but so gentle -- he was being careful not to hurt me any more than he had to. I sat very still, hardly daring to move. I was in love with him. The knowledge swept through me, truer than anything I'd ever known. Oh, my God, I was in love with him.
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That's the sort of simplistic thing we'd like to avoid, and we're not maximizing the use of our forces to best efficiency
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The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.
