Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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I wasn't really taught about the value of money. I just learnt it as I grew up, but I do remember my dad telling me that it was important to always have some savings, and that stuck with me. I've always believed that putting money aside is a good thing.
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If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.
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I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are going to be flawed.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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Our boundaries have dissolved, and we're going to still do things that are somewhat familiar that people like, but we're also going to stretch out and take chances beyond what we've done before.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
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I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.
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Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a process.
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Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
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I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
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The art is about opening, it is not about prejudice, it is not about contempt prior to investigation. It's about endlessly trying to keep from having contempt by admitting that you don't know. Even if you know a lot compared to some other people, usually, I think, the honest experience would be: "God, how little I know! And how much I need to have compassion for myself and for other people."
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I'm so blessed with my baby. And I want the most normal life possible for him. And I'll manage, I will create that.
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
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If we all die and there is no God, then it's just eternal unconsciousness, you'll never know, but if you're wrong... you'll know forever.
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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
