Jane Austen Quotes
And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.
Quotes to Explore
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In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.
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Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!
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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.
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I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.
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You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.
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Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.
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Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday.
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I really have been so, so blessed with all my leading men.
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The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.
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And right away as soon as I started doing Pilates, about 2 to 3 weeks into it I could tell that my clothes were already fitting differently. And I felt stronger than ever. My core felt tighter than ever.
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Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I believe to be love. I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.
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There will never come a time when you don't have to practice...
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I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.
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And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.
