Empress Dowager Cixi Quotes
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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I consider the modernization of the Middle East the central challenge of our time. This region behaves as if it were disturbed, if you'll excuse the clinical expression.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Who is here so vile that will not love his country?
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There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.
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People want it to be red, like blood. It's kind of funny. When I used to throw meat into the audience, I'd get letters from kids' mothers saying, "What's the best way to get blood stains out of my son's shirt?"
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It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead of enabling Londoners to live in the country have turned the countryside into a city.
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We are sticking with the plan. We have a plan to get taxes down, to get regulation down, to get productivity up, to create jobs, to reduce taxes, to boost prosperity. The plan is working and we are sticking with it.
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Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling - is among those who howl their admiration the way they howl their insults: don't be afraid, don't tremble - the beast doesn't have any nails or teeth, or even brain: it is stuffed.
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It is so much easier for them to talk about what has been done to them—to tell a story of victimization and revenge—than to notice, feel, and put into words the reality of their internal experience.
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Heavy booze is a big time vacation, but you come back with a headache.
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Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.
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To persist in doing wrong extenuates not the wrong, but makes it much more heavy.
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I was like a clock that had exploded- my springs were hanging out, my hands were cockeyed, and my numbers were falling off.
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Your tail, is becoming too heavy to wag.
