Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes
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That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?
Lee Iacocca
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Being gay is immutable.
Andrew Solomon
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I'm very much bigger than I was, so what? It's not really fatness, it's development.
Anita Ekberg
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You just assume that you have some anan, ana, ananonimity, anonymity? Yeah, anonimity.
Elijah Wood
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If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's own needs and perspectives. Such decentering is relatively easy when a society is stable and when there is an extended, supportive structure that the parent can depend upon.
David Elkind
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The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.
Derek Jarman
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Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.
Harvey Mackay
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.
Hippocrates
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At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I would be inclined to say 'if you are not willing to cooperate and follow the rules of your international federation you are not the right track and field association to be part of the USOC.
Dick Pound
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Something may be fully approved of … well transmitted … well cogitated ... well pondered, yet it may be empty, hollow, and false; but something else may not be well pondered, yet it may be factual, true, and unmistaken. Under these conditions it is not proper for a wise man who preserves truth to come to the definite conclusion: ‘Only this is true, anything else is wrong.
Bhikkhu Bodhi
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The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side.
William McFee
