Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.
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I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.
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China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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I actually wanted to be a zookeeper when I was 5.
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GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.
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I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.
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The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
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February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.
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No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.
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People will still give me attention: even when my teeth are gone, I'll have some good stories to tell.
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The fact is that I like thrillers and action movies. But what really fulfills me is getting out of my comfort zone, taking chances.
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Dubbed as a Knight of the Order of Saint Sebastian, I espoused the cause of pure colour, which has been invaded by guile, occupied and oppressed in cowardly fashion by line and its manifestation; drawing in Art. I aimed to defend and deliver it, and lead it to triumph and final glory.
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Doing good isn't that hard. It's just doing a lot of good that is very hard. If your aims are modest, you can accomplish an awful lot. When your aims become elevated beyond a reasonable level, you not only don't accomplish much, you can cause a great deal of damage.
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Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
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I must recall with gratitude those 178 Jewish women and men who participated in the Estonian War of Independence. Both of our nations know what it means to keep your identity and freedom even under the pressure of foreign powers, and we can be proud of their achievements.
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Study the rules so that you won't beat yourself by not knowing something.
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September felt sure that her shadow and everyone’s shadows were all part of the same broken thing, and broken things were to be fixed, whatever the cost, especially if you had been the one to break it in the first place.
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Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found a way that you can keep using the same oil forever.
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Chi non punisce il male comanda che si faccia.
