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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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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'What remains?' cried Ivanhoe; 'Glory, maiden, glory! which gilds our sepulchre and embalms our name.'
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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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Moral solipsism.
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I'd always listened to my parents' Bee Gees albums.
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FIFA should show the world that it is truly a global organisation.
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Both China and Russia felt duped by the U.N. 'no-fly' zone resolution regarding Libya in 2011 that eventually led to the ouster of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. China and Russia had abstained from the Libyan resolution, and neither country plans to make what they regard as a similar mistake again.
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This goes along with who we are as a society. Somebody does something exceptional, people are looking for ways to denigrate them.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Never let yourself get fooled by the same pitcher on the same pitch on the same day.
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Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.
