Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
How glad I am I need not hurry. What a waste of life, just getting and spending.
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I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights.
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Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.
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I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.
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I always have stress.
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Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.
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No, but you can see it from here.
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I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.
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Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you.
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Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self-mettle tires him.
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Everything I loved became everything I've lost.
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Close the weak banks and impose serious capital requirements on the strong ones...You see, it may sound hard-hearted, but you cannot keep unsound financial institutions operating simply because they provide jobs.
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I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.
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It always seems to be the hole in the dike.
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What genre it falls under is only of interest later.
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He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come.
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How glad I am I need not hurry. What a waste of life, just getting and spending.
