Epifanio de los Santos Quotes
Lazy geniuses! There are no such men. Laziness and genius never go hand in hand. Each excludes the other. Laziness is the best proof of the absence of genius.
Epifanio de los Santos
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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Victor Grignard
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Samantha Bond
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I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.
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The Internet is crazy, and I love it!
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Lily King
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Marianne Williamson
Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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It is vain and useless to survey everything that goes on in the world if our study does not help us mend our ways.
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Elizabeth Wein