Charles Dickens Quotes
What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes!
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
Cameron Sinclair
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In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
Rachel Joyce
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I don't like possessions.
Daniel Barenboim
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
Karen Kain
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
Gavin Rossdale Bush
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
Kate Winslet
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Paavo Nurmi
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
Cameron van der Burgh
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
Fat Joe
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For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.
Tavi Gevinson
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
J. D. Salinger
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
Hanya Yanagihara
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Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
Washington Irving
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One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.
J. Cole
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
Hamid Karzai
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
Lara St. John
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The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
Natalie Cole
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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
Irving Babbitt
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I've changed my life in a lot of ways. I'm a mom, a wife, and a Christian. Some of the things I expressed in my early 20s aren't what I care to express right now.
Cheryl James
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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In the report made on behalf of the C.G.T. we affirmed that the Peace Treaty should, in accordance with the spirit of workers' organizations, lay the first foundations of the United States of Europe.
Leon Jouhaux
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the idea of movement.. ..just transferred from the Nude Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 - Duchamp painted this in 1912 into a bicycle wheel Bicycle wheel, his early ready-made from 1916-17.
Marcel Duchamp
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It was just a general feeling I have. I'm looking for someone to really establish themselves as the quarterback, take over and take off with the team.
Joe Gibbs
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What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes!
Charles Dickens