Alexander Pope Quotes
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
Damien Hirst
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
Nancy Lublin
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
Barton Gellman
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
Ice T
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I never said I was a genius.
Orson Welles
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
Warren Spector
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I think there is no reason for us to bring to Islamism or political Islam the fear and ignorance of Western commentators and their hysterical vocabulary.
Pankaj Mishra
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
Wanda Sykes
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
K. Flay
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
Adam Peaty
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Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
Umberto Eco
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For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
Laura Linney
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Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
Vicente Fox
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When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.
Vijay Kumar
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
Gavin Newsom
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I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
Carl Levin
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
Victor Hugo
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Those that have received care here in Des Moines at the VA center or the VA hospital here have said that they do receive good care. However, it's getting into the system - the wait periods. We have to do something about that. The care here has been good. We're not seeing that in other states.
Joni Ernst
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I've always believed in my talent. And I've always had more guts than talent.
Dolly Parton
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Boone gulped and swallowed. He spoke to The Hat. 'You said the Highway to Eternity?' That is not what I said. I said the Highway of Eternity.'Small difference,' Boone told him. Not so small as you might think.
Clifford D. Simak
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It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.
Elizabeth Smart
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The web's strength lies precisely in its unique position as the world's first universal platform.
Jeffrey Zeldman
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
Alexander Pope