Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.
Quotes to Explore
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I am neither going to Bollywood nor joining politics.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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As kids, we had no clue about the racial stuff that seemed to preoccupy adults. We just enjoyed our life as kids.
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Water is the foundation for our economies, communities, ecosystems, and quality of life.
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I'm not a ice cream, i'm a human being
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But you are beautiful And you better go show it So go look again You gotta be true to your own If you really wanna go to the top Do you really wanna win Don’t believe in leaving normal Just to satisfy demand ((Beauty in Ugly))
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Until we see love as the meaning of life, life seems to have no meaning at all. The sense of meaninglessness produces chaos, and the chaos produces fear. There is only one way out of this, and that is to see every moment and every situation as an invitation to love.
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Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.
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I think I will tell her to come here, and if her house is damaged, I can go back with her and help with the cleanup. I'm just glad she's not in the Superdome.
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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
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So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.
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I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.
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I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
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Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.
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The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.
