Maria Callas Quotes
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.
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Sometimes, things just fall into your lap, and that's pretty incredible.
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My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.
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Letters should be easy and natural.
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I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
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Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.
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For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.
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Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
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Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.
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I always just thought if you see somebody without a smile, give'em yours!
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Mima. No despair. She was dying, and there was not one sign of despair in her dancing eyes.
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Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
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If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines get inside a man's reason and betray him against himself. Civilized men have done their fiercest fighting for doctrines.
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Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.
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Hereby we may understand that God, of His special grace, maketh the teachers of the gospel subject to the Cross, and to all kinds of afflicitons, for the salvation of themselves and of the people; for otherwise they could by no means beat down this beast which is called vain-glory.
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Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.
