Jane Austen Quotes
Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.
Jane Austen
Quotes to Explore
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The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.
Edsger Dijkstra
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I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
Dana Perino
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It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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'As with all dwellings,' she said, 'of mortals and immortals both, it is the living that makes a house-not the doors, not the walls.'
Tad Williams
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I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.
Lexa Doig
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I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.
Chuck Mangione
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Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul.
Cyrus Augustus Bartol
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When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty much supported myself with music.
John Roy Anderson
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Oakmont possesses all the charm of a sock to the head.
Gene Sarazen
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Strange times are these, in which we live, forsooth ;
When young and old are taught in Falsehood's school:–
And the man who dares to tell the truth,
Is called at once a lunatic and fool.
George Francis Train
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I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.
Paris Hilton
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It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman - these are the virtues of a citizen.
Aristotle
