Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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I'm a believer in things happening for a reason.
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I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
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Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.
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Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.
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There's something grounded about 'Ugly Americans,' so I think it's good that I'm playing a version of myself in these elevated cartoon circumstances.
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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
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If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.
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Now I'm this far up the ladder and I've got so much farther to go with what I want to achieve with it.
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I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.
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It Nobel Peace Prize is a great recognition and honour for millions of children in the world. I hope many more people will join the fight against child slavery. This isn't just about India. It's a global phenomenon. We'll work for this globally. I've been working in 147 countries and my responsibility is with all the world's children.
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Let me say it here and now. For all Hunter's mindless self-indulgence, which is legendary and crude, he always impressed me with his blind, selfless urge to cut out the crony bestiality of modern society and the political economy that scarred the era.
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'What remains?' cried Ivanhoe; 'Glory, maiden, glory! which gilds our sepulchre and embalms our name.'
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The Destiny of EarthseedIs to take root among the stars.
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The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
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What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time. His perception is not limited to what is biologically or socially useful.
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Any one who is much talked of, must be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.
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When you've been used to doing things, and they've been taken away from you, it's as if your hands had been cut off, and you felt the fingers as are of no use to you.
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You're going to work out and try to maintain the strength you gain in the offseason, and then you work to gain after the season is over.
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In the old days, you lived in one neighborhood, you knew all your neighbors and your daughter married the guy next door. That was social and economic progress. That model is gone now. We also had a world order that was fraught but fairly stable.
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What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.
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They the American authorities can't actually believe that anyone would want to not be an American,' he says. 'It's not enough to send them a letter and tell them you've become British; you've got to go to the embassy to formally renounce your US citizenship. I'm a little worried that when I do this they'll pack me off to Guantanamo.
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Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.
