Elisabeth of Wied Quotes
I am quite above physical death and believe it to be only the birth throes for a much purer life in a much purer draping.
Elisabeth of Wied
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Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy.
Katarina Witt
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The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.
Vin Diesel
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If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.
Wen Jiabao
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I'm an optimist. I have always been, and I will continue to be. So I believe there's always a possibility of transforming or changing or doing something different.
Wadada Leo Smith
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
Quentin Crisp
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Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.
Pat Barker
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Sir, he Bolingbroke was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger at his death.
Samuel Johnson
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Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
Samuel Beckett
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I am still making my living reciting my verses for crowds who refuse to buy my books. I must do this, as all American rhymers must, however sick I may be of the sound of my own voice.
Vachel Lindsay
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Circumretit enim vis atque iniuria quemque,atque, unde exortast, at eum plerumque revertit.
Lucretius
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...it’s important to remember how fortunate we are as a country to have a currency and a bond market that is seen in every way as a source of strength and it’s a huge responsibility for us to keep it that way.
Lawrence Summers
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The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.
Emily Greene Balch
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Whether we're looking at the burial box of St. James, a fragment of the True Cross, the Shroud of Turin, or some bones supposedly belonging to John the Baptist, there is always excitement and distrust, faith and doubt.
Jay Parini
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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
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And if that child should ever get the chance to travel the world and someone should ask her where is she from, we believe that she should always be able to hold her head high with pride in her voice when she answers, "I am an American." That is the course we seek. That is the change we are calling for.
Barack Obama
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Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.
Nicole Appleton
All Saints
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...to the priestly class - decadence is no more than a means to an end. Men of this sort have a vital interest in making mankind sick, and in confusing the values of 'good' and 'bad,' 'true' and 'false' in a manner that is not only dangerous to life, but also slanders it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am quite above physical death and believe it to be only the birth throes for a much purer life in a much purer draping.
Elisabeth of Wied
