Charles Dickens Quotes
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
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Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
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I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
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I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.
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Life (ayu) is the combination (samyoga) of body, senses, mind and reincarnating soul. Ayurveda is the most sacred science of life, beneficial to humans both in this world and the world beyond.
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Good leaders organize and align people around what the team needs to do. Great leaders motivate and inspire people with why they're doing it. That's purpose. And that's the key to achieving something truly transformational.
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What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo!
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Everything that I do I hear and then I go with my hands, and since I use my hands for both piano and guitar that is kind of hands-on.
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External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.
