Angelus Silesius Quotes
How fleeting is this world yet it survives. It is ourselves that fade from it and our ephemeral lives.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
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He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.
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One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
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You can't always understand if someone's into you or not, so you should never really pursue something too far without gauging that first.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
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A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
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The world hasn't noticed, but R&B has shifted. It's changing course.
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So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge always to live by the ideals we promote to the world.
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I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings.
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With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.
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How fleeting is this world yet it survives. It is ourselves that fade from it and our ephemeral lives.
