Maria Edgeworth Quotes
Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.
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It's just a blessing from above. I can't stress that enough, because I don't feel like it's anything that I've done. For me to say, 'Well, it's because of this, this and that is why I've been able to play,' it's just a lie. I couldn't tell you why.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.
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I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
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I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.
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Good movies are what I wait my whole life for.
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It may not matter to anybody now, but when you go out there and perform on the field, that's what matters.
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My father loved Brazilian football, a diehard follower, so of course, he hated Germany and always rooted against them, always.
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In this decayed hole among the mountainsIn the faint moonlight, the grass is singingOver the tumbled graves, about the chapelThere is the empty chapel, only the wind's home.
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Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
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Nothing is yet in its true form.
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Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.
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The first two lines, which rhymed 'kiddin' you' and 'didn't you,' just about knocked me out, and later on, when I got to the jugglers and the chrome horse and the princess on the steeple, it all just about got to be too much.
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You are my fire the one desire<brb>Believe when I say I want it that way
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If only all the contradictory voices shouting inside my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care so long as they sang without dissonance.
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People learn English from 'Full House.' Candace's husband, Valeri Bure, he learned to speak English watching it... 'Aw, nuts.' 'You got it, dude.'
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If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922.
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Africa the continent is not just what we see on the news. It's... not AIDS, and it's not just war and poverty. It's so much more. It's an abundant continent, and Botswana is an abundant place.
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I want to be remembered as a great footballer and a great player. When our football days are over, that's all we are - people.
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We try to 'self-medicate' ourselves against boredom with mobile phones in any given moment of free time.
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Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.
