Gertrude Bell Quotes
I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals.
Gertrude Bell
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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian
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I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I gratefully accept, for as I told the Mayor, "How could I refuse?" I'd rather be Poet Laureate of San Francisco than anywhere because this city has always been a poetic center, a frontier for free poetic life, with perhaps more poets and more poetry readers than any city in the world.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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I am a God, so hurry up with my damn massage; in a French-ass restaurant, hurry up with my damn croissants.
Kanye West
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Expect the unexpected, that was the S.T.A.R.S. motto—although.
S. D. Perry
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Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.
Albert Einstein
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All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.
William James
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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
William James
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More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's feelings and reactions are alike. People flee wars to escape death, they migrate to improve their fortunes, they build new lives in foreign lands, they adapt to extreme hardship….
Sebastiao Salgado
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A top McCain policy adviser claimed this week that McCain's work in the Senate helped create the BlackBerry, saying, 'You're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create.' He then handed the BlackBerry to McCain, who attempted to withdraw $20 from it.
Amy Poehler
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The main reason to be opposed to political control of smoking is to keep power -even the smallest and silliest kind of power - out of the hands of ... members of a dangerous class -the class that knows what's good for us better than we do.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Honestly achieved results surpass all others.
Michael Diamond
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I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals.
Gertrude Bell