Leslie Stephen Quotes
If you wish at once to do nothing and to be respectable now-a-days, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
Leslie Stephen
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
Hansika Motwani
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Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
Ramana Maharshi
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.
Idina Menzel
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I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
Fidel Castro
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
Tallulah Bankhead
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
Kate Mulgrew
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
W. Somerset Maugham
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
Viktor E. Frankl
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Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.
F. Gary Gray
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I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.
Ted Cruz
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The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
Calvin Peete
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I like most of the venture capitalists I know; they're smart, well-intended guys who genuinely enjoy helping entrepreneurs succeed. And I love venture capital and investment capital of all categories - its economic impact is proven. The more of it the better.
Andrew Yan
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But, as always, Mr. Rooney would come over and shake your hand and congratulate you on a good game, no matter what the situation was.
Franco Harris
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We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.
Carl Honore
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The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models.
Freeman Dyson
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You must not grieve so heavily. Better are good than evil omens. though I am weak and small, Spumed with Dylan's wave, I shall be better for you Than three hundred shares of salmon.
Taliesin
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If you wish at once to do nothing and to be respectable now-a-days, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
Leslie Stephen
