Charles Dickens Quotes
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
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I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don't work. When you clean your house, you don't get tired; it gives you satisfaction.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
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Still often interventionist, convinced of our importance in the world, even those of us born long after 1900 live in a country that is much more Victorian than we think.
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I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.
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It's hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.
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Volunteering is a great way to look outside your own problems. Giving back to makes you happier by both giving you a sense of purpose and helping to put your problems in perspective.
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'Villain' is such a harsh word.
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I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.
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On the actual competition days, you get about three or four hours of physical exertion - between an hour-long warm-up, recovery in-between runs, the training runs, and then the runs themselves.
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A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
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要使文艺很好地成为整个革命机器的一个组成部分，作为团结人民、教育人民、打击敌人、消灭敌人的有力的武器，帮助人民同心同德地和敌人作斗争。
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I get up, go out, and everything is changed. The blood drains from my head, the noise of things bursting, merging, avoiding one another, assails me on all sides, my eyes search in vain for two things alike, each pinpoint of skin screams a different message, I drown in the spray of phenomena.
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The problem is that too often the only people who can act don’t want change. Power doesn’t so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.
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However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
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A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science.
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We heard moving accounts from two working miners about just what they have to face as they try to make their way to work. The sheer bravery of those men and thousands like them who kept the mining industry alive is beyond praise. 'Scabs' their former workmates call them. Scabs? They are lions!
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I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.
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Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.
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Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
