Alessandro Michele Quotes
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
Abdoulaye Wade -
I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
Jacki Weaver -
National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
Pankaj Mishra -
Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply.
Sam Harris -
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Samuel Johnson -
I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
Samantha Power
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
Jack Prelutsky -
It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
Kate Smith -
When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
Laura Schlessinger -
You don't necessarily have to be religious to pray.
Vera Farmiga -
He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.
Galileo Galilei -
To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.
Jack Layton
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'Touch'
Octavio Paz -
I had never believed I had a soul until then, when it laid bare a hurt more deep than any part of me could bear.
Orson Scott Card -
'I sometimes think,' said the Eternal, 'that the stars never shine more brightly than when reflected in the muddy waters of a wayside ditch.'
W. Somerset Maugham -
There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
Walter Benjamin -
We were snatched away and given alone into the hands of people who believed that it was their duty to break us and remake us in the Christian American image. And, of course, breaking people is much easier than putting them together again.So much agony caused, so much evil done in God’s name.
Octavia E. Butler -
Tell them the universe is too complicated a toy for a sensibly cautious being to play with.
Larry Niven
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A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange.... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
Aristotle -
Nicole Kidman was an inspiration to me at the time I left the church. Knowing that she went on to have a successful and happy life, both personally and professionally, helped to give me confidence.
Leah Remini -
Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor.
Sara Paxton -
The global triumph of American technology has been predicated on the implicit separation between the business interests of Silicon Valley and the political interests of Washington.
Evgeny Morozov -
The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up.
Luke Wilson -
I love just a stage.
Alessandro Michele