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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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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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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(singing) Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O!/
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HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.
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Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.
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Now she watched Nat as a small child watches a teacher from whom it must at all costs learn. He took to himself each day as it came with childlike trustfulness, and so did she. He never complained, and neither did she. He took every misfortune with a grin, and so did she. He took upon himself all the hardest and most unpleasant duties as a matter of mere routine, and she tried to do the same.
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I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.
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In all religions, the quickening spirit has been symbolically represented as a bird. At the baptism, when Jesus' body was in the water, the Spirit of Christ descended into it as a dove.
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Long-term memory involves enduring changes that result from the growth of new synaptic connections.
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Chi non punisce il male comanda che si faccia.
