Charles Dickens Quotes
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.
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To me, it's weird when people review improv at all.
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I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.
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I adore recipes that make use of one cut of meat or a whole animal to create a complex dish, loaded with flavour.
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I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.
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Playing for India has been an honour and I want to continue doing that. I don't know anything else to do other than cricket. I want to play as long as I can,
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Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to them properly, cinema would have no need for music at all.
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Ethics in government has always been important to me.
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I'll grab coffee with my wife and daughter and then am in the office around 9 or 10. From there, I usually have about 8 hours of meetings.
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We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.
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Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
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I'm aware of the fact that I don't know how to do it all, but I want for my blog to be a place where people can come to ask questions so that I can look for the answers for them. That's the kind of work that I did for my books, and I want to transition that to my blog for more of a community feel.
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I really don't know that I'm iconic. I don't even know that people think I'm cool.
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I knew deep down that I was going to have my little girl, even if I had to raise her on my own, which is what I did.
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I'm very influenced by the circus. A lot of the dreams that I have, I'm in the circus.
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I only watch MSNBC for the news.
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We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities.
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It's only a hunting spider, it won't hurt you." -Myrnin "So not the point!" -Claire "Oh, pish. It's just another living creature. Nothing to be frightened of, if handled properly. I think I'll call him Bob. Bob the spider." -Myrnin "You're insane." -Claire
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The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.
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Today, more people are crossing various borders in order to survive, thrive, change their lives. Even if you don't cross the border, with demographic shifts, the border sometimes crosses you.
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If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.
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The China of the 1970s was a communist dictatorship. The China of the twenty-first century is a one-party state without a firm ideological foundation, more similar to Mexico under the PRI than Russia under Stalin. But the measurement of the political and the economic evolution has not yet been completed, and is one of the weak points of the system.
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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.
