Charles Dickens Quotes
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
Warren Beatty
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
Oscar Niemeyer
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
Carl Honore
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
Olly Murs
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
Mamie Van Doren
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Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
Warren Farrell
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
Yael Naim
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
Mal Peet
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
Vince Carter
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
W. Bruce Cameron
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
Wangari Maathai
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
Barbara Boxer
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Malcolm McDowell
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
Wellington Mara
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Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
Jackson Katz
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
Dan Kaminsky
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I don't run a woman government. I run a government of people.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.
Bruce Lee
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Isc remains deeply apologetic that prior versions of BIND did not properly catch the configuration error that you appear to have built your business on.
Paul Vixie
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
Jack Vance
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Only in a country free from the funnelling of primogeniture and the levelling of égalité could the fifth generation of a family still be receiving parcels of wealth from a fortune that had essentially been made in the 1830s.
Edward St Aubyn
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I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Charles Dickens