Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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I think a British icon is someone who conducts themself with real dignity: someone who is truly talented and modest. These are things that I would aspire to in my career.
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Anya Hindmarch is indeed a handbag designer; she has the requisite fabulous life, tasteful home, and loving husband. She is also beautiful and self-deprecating, and has five children aged 5 to 20 and a philanthropic bent which spans causes from cancer care to Britain's Conservative Party.
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The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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100% of Net-a-porter customers have a man in their lives in some capacity, and 59% are married or living with a partner.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar 'queen,' alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.
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I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.
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I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.
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Stop and consider! life is but a day;A fragile dew-drop on its perilous wayFrom a tree’s summit.
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I seem to thrive by destroying the last thing I did, in a kind of cartoon Nietzsche way. Emerson says in "Experience" something like "every ultimate fact soon becomes the next in a series." The self feels more real when you are destroying things you've made than when you are paying them homage. That's the good news about being self-destructive. The bad news, I feel I don't need to deliver.
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Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. Curtius Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant
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By such deductions the law of gravitation is rendered probable, that every particle attracts every other particle with a force which varies inversely as the square of the distance. The law thus suggested is assumed to be universally true.
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I look up to Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn and old styles. You will never see me in a crop top and hot pants - I'm more into dresses.
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
