Charles Dickens Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.
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I went to Australia and did a three day hike with my fiance through the wilderness, which was nice.
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I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
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Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.
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After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.
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When you're a skateboarder or a snowboarder, it affects the way you talk, the way you move, the way you interact with the world and other people.
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What would happen to the world if we were human?
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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.
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Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
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Jerry Seinfeld made a puddle, I stepped in it, and wonderful things happened.
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Whenever you're trying to do your own take on a classic piece of literature, it's almost like you're trying to swim up your own stream or drive down your own path.
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With a famous name, you have to work that much harder to get the part.
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When self-publishing started, it was mostly people who really couldn't write. And they just wanted to get their book out, and they couldn't get traditional deals.
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The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.
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In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence.
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I am an 'other.' As a queer, biracial man who occupies and embodies many different intersections of 'otherness,' I've spent my entire life seeking reflections of myself in the world around me to connect and relate to.
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I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them.
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I take the same approach in all genres of art, across the board. It's intuitive.
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Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows.
