Charles Dickens Quotes
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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I love creative people.
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It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.
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I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.
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While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.
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I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world.
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Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.
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When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.
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I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.
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I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.
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I am an advocate of one form of the New Perspective. But there are as many new perspectives as there are people writing about it.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
