Lewis Carroll Quotes
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.
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Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.
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I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.
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People miss those who they love. It brings tears to my eyes to see the longing for me. But it's my decision to do fewer films and more protagonist-based roles. For me to take up something, it has to make a lot of sense to me.
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The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
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I think Hillary is going to be more hawkish perhaps than Obama. Perhaps more hawkish than Trump. Trump, though, is really a windshield wiper. He says one thing that makes sense and then says something that doesn't make sense.
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May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
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Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.
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Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt.
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You have a whole life in the outdoors, you realize you have a sense of responsibility to protect these wild places.
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In bad times and in good I've never lost my sense of zest for life.
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The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
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The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I'm already involved.
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To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.
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Much learning does not teach sense.
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It Justice is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.
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Take care with the end as you do with the beginning.
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I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.
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And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
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We want everybody to be bossed up.
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Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.