Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
'The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.'
Quotes to Explore
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.
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Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.
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Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.
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Women are naturally competitive. That's what drives women to form cliques at early age.
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When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.
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When I do my best work, the stories tend to be pretty emotionally-charged.
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The most important effects of Christianity went out from it without the intention of the Church, or even against its will.
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'The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.'
