Charles Dickens Quotes
I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.
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I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.
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The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.
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For me, you look at the beginning of his career, the man couldn't even make weight. That's how I found out about Henry Cejudo to begin with. 'Oh, Henry Cejudo misses weight again.' I'm like, who's this guy who keeps missing weight. When the UFC signed him, I was like, 'Great, you guys signed another guy who can't make 125.'
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But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.
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Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
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In Japan, it becomes a huge issue in terms of not just the government and its protest against the United States, but all different groups and all different peoples in Japan start to protest.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.
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You cannot be a man of faith and live in a day. You do not live in a day if you are a man of faith.
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If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until death, just let us indulge in a little stinging criticism - no matter how certain we are that it is justified.
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What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
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When you mathematize something you distill its essence.
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It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.
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We often hear the teachers of all creeds lamenting the difficulty of keeping up in the minds of believers a lively apprehension of the truth which they nominally recognize, so that it may penetrate the feelings, and acquire a real mastery over the conduct.... When it has come to be a hereditary creed, and to be received passively, not actively ... there is a progressive tendency to forget all of the belief except the formularies ... until it almost ceases to connect itself at all with the inner life of the human being.
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It is a fact that with Brexit, we all lose.
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I think willpower is very valuable.
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In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.
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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
