Elisabeth of Wied Quotes
Nothing has been so deplorable for countries as centralization. I am afraid when I see Germany grow so powerful, and centralizing in Berlin; it is the beginning of the end!
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.
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For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.
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From 1997 through 1999, I had gained so much. People don't realize how something like weight gain can make you sad. Losing weight has changed my life. If you can take control of your life, you can lose weight.
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I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it.
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Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.
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My hair walks into a room before I do.
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We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
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I think I would like to discover a new root where people don't get bored with people singing boring lines but something exciting. That'd be interesting.
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After I helped on P4 mixing and saw how things were being done I offered to take care of Project 3, and on it went from there. Plus I'm way cheap.
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During the campaign [Donald Trump] talked about reaching out to African- American voters in particular. He talked about inner cities in a way that did offend some people. Lot of Democrats. Some African- Americans of saying what have you got to lose.
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I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment.
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The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization or social theory that is not dangerous, but that they should remain entirely ignorant of any civilization or social theory that might be dangerous on the ground that what you don't know can't hurt you ... a complete denial of the democratic principle that the general diffusion of knowledge and learning through the community is essential to the preservation of free government.
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True love would be passion that burned so hot you were almost afraid of the power the other person had over you, the way they could turn you inside out with a look, a touch, a kiss. It would be wanting to fall asleep every night and wake up every morning for the rest of your life in that one person’s arms. Just like you said, it would be holding hands and laughing and building a family together. And, most of all, it would mean being able to talk to each other about absolutely anything, knowing that no matter how hard it was to say the difficult things, you’d both still love each other…and that you’d find a way to work it out together. No matter what.
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Nothing has been so deplorable for countries as centralization. I am afraid when I see Germany grow so powerful, and centralizing in Berlin; it is the beginning of the end!
