Henry David Thoreau Quotes
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Henry David Thoreau
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
Venus Williams
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Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.
Tamara Ecclestone
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I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.
Kat Graham
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
Dalai Lama
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
Nancy Gibbs
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Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
Zygmunt Bauman
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When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.
David E. Kelley
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Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Prayers truly from the heart open all doors in Heaven.
Nachman of Breslov
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I would always stand up for women, but I don't want women's rights and all that sort of thing. I love to have men around, and I suppose if you're a true feminist, you get on and do it yourself. I love it when someone says, 'I'll get your coat' or, 'I'll look after you', or offers you a seat on the bus. I'm thrilled to bits. I'm not a feminist.
Mary Berry
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Henry David Thoreau