Edward Joseph Young Quotes
Leisure is pain; takes off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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Healthcare is a very complicated business and you need a very different business model to be successful in India; yet at a global level, there are a lot of challenges and opportunities.
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In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.
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Small habits well pursued betimesMay reach the dignity of crimes.
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…for thy huggest thy bolster, which men call a Dutch wife in some parts.
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Freebooter, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.
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I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.
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When I was at school, I auditioned for the school play as Queen Gertrude, and I fell in love with it there and then.
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When your lips get dry, is there anything more frantic?
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The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.
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Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential and generate more public welfare.
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When you get older, your skin tone changes; your hair probably changes colour, whether you dye it or not, and you just can't wear the colours you used to like anymore.
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I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.
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Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.
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What great writers have done to cities is not to tell us what happens in them, but to remember what they think happened or, indeed, might have happened. And so Dickens reinvented London, Joyce, Dublin, and so on.
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You can't expect humanitarian and development agencies to rebuild Syria. There is not enough money. There is not enough capacity. There are not enough skills.
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Before, if I thought Christmas, I would have remembered my past on Earth and would have succumbed to the aching sadness for a life I can never have again. Now, I can think the word and not feel anything but a dull ache, a phantom pain for a part of my life that’s been amputated.
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Leisure is pain; takes off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!
