Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I'm evangelical.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
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I think lower wages have made men much less marriageable than they were before. It's not just like your job goes to hell. Your marriage goes to hell. You don't know your children anymore. Your children have a higher chance of being screwed up.
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The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated.
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I have great respect for the LDS church - their commitment to family and taking care of each other is exemplary. I just don't believe the tenets of the faith that they believe.
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I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life.
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The pricing of a pharmaceutical product is opaque and frustrating, especially for patients.
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Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
