Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
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My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.
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I don’t have any control over what memories I get, when I get them. Except every single one of them is something I would have rather forgotten.
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I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal is linear. This opens up a very high order of generalizations of generalizations. The truth could not be more omni-important, although it is often manifestly operative only as a linear identification of a special-case experience on a specialized subject.
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There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
