Gerald of Wales Quotes
Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.
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I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
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I lived through many battles - the 1973, I was young; in 1982 with the Israeli invasions, and 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel. Before I emigrated to the States in '83, I had my own very black and white views of the Israelis and the Jews in general. But you start to understand that no matter what you think, there are two perspectives.
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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
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Makeup can help you capture a moment.
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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I just worked my own personal thoughts into my music, and just kept at it until I found a way in.
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The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.
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I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection.
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Netweaver was going to be the number one middleware player in the world. We heard about Netweaver day and night. Oracle became number one. No one talks about Netweaver.
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.
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If I could eat without gaining weight or getting unhealthy, I would eat all the time.
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Therein lay the secret to all fads: the herd instinct. People wanted to look like everybody else. That was why they bought white bucks and pedal pushers and bikinis. But someone had to be the first one to wear platform shoes, to bob their hair, and that took the opposite of herd instinct.
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One of the biggest problems of our contemporary civilization is that there's been an interruption of transmission. People have no past in their present.
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I'm aiming to become the white Oprah.
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Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.
