Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
Oh well, I’ll be sure to pick you up again somewhere. It isn’t a very big island, and you are a conspicuous object, driving round it.’ This was true. So long as I was on that island I could not hope to escape Charlotte. I entered Binz in a state of moody acquiescence.
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I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
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Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.
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People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
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I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.
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LeBron James needs to go to another team with two superstars already so he can win a championship.
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By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire.
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It's nice to see that people in Middle America are really affected.
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We don't work with anyone.
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.
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I'd find Moyo's views cruel and mistaken even she did not get the scholarships that have been reported.
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For a momentThe surrounding utters no sound.Time ceases.The Paradise of Dreams come true.
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Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?
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Quiet is better than loud.
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Facebook has focused on the conversation, but not really on absorbing the Web into its walled garden.
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People have a lot of strange relationships with food. There's a lot more going on there than just, 'Oh, these crullers remind me of my childhood.' We have a darker and more complex relationship to food.
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I try to stay fit. I try and do something every day but I don't jog. My body hates jogging.
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There can be no doubt that the Virgin Mary is in heaven. How it happened we do not know.
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A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of the soil, sucking in its elemental humors, its fortifying juices. Trees always seem lost in a great tranquil dream. The dark rising sap makes them groan in the warm afternoons. A tree is a living being that knows the course of the clouds and presses the storms because it is full of birds' nests.
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Oh well, I’ll be sure to pick you up again somewhere. It isn’t a very big island, and you are a conspicuous object, driving round it.’ This was true. So long as I was on that island I could not hope to escape Charlotte. I entered Binz in a state of moody acquiescence.
