Jane Austen Quotes
They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.
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Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
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Comic-Con is really cool. It's different. I like to people-watch. I like to see the costumes.
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One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.
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I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
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A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
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We've been working our tail off and lead by that example.
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After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That's complicated for me because I spent so many years wanting to be older.
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When I get older, I will be stronger They’ll call me freedom, just like a Wavin’ Flag
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I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.
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One of the stupidest things we ever did was to take creative departments out of the agencies.
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A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.
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The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the government.
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There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent that I represent some flavor of what's happening in hip-hop - it's subconscious.
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There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.
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The majority of mankind think that they think; they acquiesce, and suppose that they argue; they flatter themselves that they are holding their own, when they have actually grown up to manhood, with scarcely a conviction that they can call their own. So it was, and so it ever shall be.
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Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.
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The only purpose of starting is to finish
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However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
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Love is the kind of thing that's already happening by the time you notice it, that's how it works, and no matter how old you get, that doesn't change. Except that you can break it up into two entirely distinct types -- love where there's an end in sight and love where there isn't.
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You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.
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They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.
