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Like John Stuart Mill, he would often begin by stating the other side better than its advocate had stated it himself.

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• Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Women
  • Song
  • Imagination

• For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Second
  • Liked
  • Rembrandt

• Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • You
  • Eye
  • Look

• We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Universe
  • Balance
  • Unknown

• I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Better

• For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Help

• Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.

  

  Katharine Anthony
  • Dangerous
  • Principles

• I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Mother

• You know why I'm running for governor? Because everything we care about is under siege from President Donald Trump and Bruce Rauner.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Why
  • Know
  • Running

• Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Moment

• I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • People
  • Me
  • Ideas

• It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • Long
  • Important

• My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Mother
  • Football
  • Player

• My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Work
  • Goal
  • Greatest

• We have Sunday morning breakfast before church. I don't do the dishes, but I do cook. I'm the griller.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Church
  • Morning
  • Sunday

• If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • God
  • Done

• I just feel like people need role models, you know, that are dressed.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Know
  • Feel

• When an actor decides to play a character, he must exude some sort of charisma and look relatable, even if he is playing the role of a really unattractive person.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Character
  • Play
  • Look

• What I want to see is more mixed casts. We need it. People need to be brave - in the real world, everyone and anyone is around. So if people get to see themselves on the stage, they'll want to come.

  

  Cynthia Erivo
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• My compliance without participation began to disorientate him. I thought, as always in those circumstances, that I should pretend a yearning and uncontrolled passion or push him away. But I didn't dare to either one or the other: I was afraid I would throw up, because the result would be earthquake-like waves. I had only to wait.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Passion
  • Circumstances
  • Afraid

• Space station is, it really is one of the more, if not the most, impressive technological achievement of the modern day, not only in what we've accomplished engineering-wise but what we've accomplished on this international scale, because anybody will tell you that half the challenge is making it all work.

  

  Kevin A. Ford
  • Work
  • Space
  • Challenge

• I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

  

  Eric Schmidt
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Society

• Like John Stuart Mill, he would often begin by stating the other side better than its advocate had stated it himself.

  

  Learned Hand