As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

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Author: Max Beerbohm

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We take comfort in the notion of an unbridgeable gulf between good and evil, but maybe we should und

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My blood was boiling, which is not a good thing for a coldblood.Dracula was dead. Rex was dying or d

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I had no intention of entering politics, but then the force of events led me to become involved in p

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Now, what does a vampire do with a computer? Keep track of investments? Send e-mail to other vampire

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I am your moon and your moonlight tooI am your flower garden and your water tooI have come all this

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Strength is not determined by the looks, but action.

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Cath wanted to go back and rewrite every scene she'd ever written about Baz or Simon's chests. She'd

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He’d never thought of death like that, like it’s some sort of other life that you can hope for, drea

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If ignorance about the nature of pain is widespread, ignorance about the way pain-killing drugs is e

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Who is preaching the living word today?

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Choices are never right or wrong. Perhaps, the choice you made was the best choice under the given s

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Don't watch the clock do what it does. Keep going.

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When you're ready to live as the victor and not the victim, you have to change the language that you

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I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't b

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There are no greater or lesser arts, only greater or lesser artists.

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Hopelessness is the catalyst that inspires men to action and demand justice.

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So here is one tip, be careful how you say the words... sometimes people get it wrong once wrong it

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This showed once again that everyone had something different to lose in this battle. Some were conce

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Any woman can make pole dancing a regular part of their exercise routine - and a fun part of their r

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To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong.

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I love your laugh. I want to hear it every day. I want to be through all this darkness and devastati

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Everyday i thinking about you

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A friend once told me "Michael, if you were a villain, you'd be the Joker," to which I replied, "no,

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The first night in the hospital with a snuffling baby girl, I learned that my family was not the onl

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The past is gone. It went by like dusk to dawn.

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Hitting "like" on a social media platform is the modern day version of clapping at the end of a perf

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There is always a spark before a drive. Don’t expect any miracle to occur in your life if you won’t

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The journey of the sun and moon is predictable, but yours is your ultimate art.

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No. I will never let you hurt Day like that. Not the way I've already hurt him.

Author: Marie Lu
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I don't want to write soft, easy fiction; I want to write fiction that challenges.

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Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. B

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Every human being has the same right of achieving this Supreme knowledge (Brahmagyan). When this wil

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If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy

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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Author: Edward Everett
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Acharya Balkrishna" on the Origin of Yog and its Greatness"Standing upright facing all storms and te

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Christianity was derailed when Bible Schools became certification centers for true apostles of Chris

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It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of c

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To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon m

Author: John Quincy Adams
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You have something on your neck. What Looks like a bite mark, what were you doing out all night, any

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Quote #120817

Music fills the gap between the conscious and the subconscious mind with endless joy and bliss.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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Always wear a smile sometime during the day - it makes you feel happier and look younger.

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I have 365-days thankful notes. What a sacred-thanks?

Author: Unknown
Quote #149303

Being focused in life is not only knowing what you want, but also how and why.

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One of the things that makes me who I am is the loyalty I have to people I hold close to my heart.

Author: Simone Elkeles
Quote #458684

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

Author: Edward Furlong
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She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven

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A man in drink can be like a ravening wolf.

Author: Agatha Christie
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There are two kinds of people we meet in our lives who make a difference: those who remain in our li

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It's goddamned funny in this police racket how an old woman can look out of a window and see a guy r

Author: Raymond Chandler
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Biography is the only true history.

Author: Thomas Carlyle
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Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from

Author: Richard Dawkins
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It is only with the heart that one can see, hear and feel clearly. Think of an image, music or movie

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Be determined that you will let every dream of yours be released to the fullest capacity. Brighten y

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Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase

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What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some

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I love spicy food, love it. But wasabi is just painful.

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In government, one actress is enough.

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The answers to your problems lie all around you. The keys to your self-discovery are waiting to be f

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The complex called the feeling of guilt does not let us accept ourselves the way we are created

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And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.

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The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less al

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Quote #186250

We refused to be what the world want us to be- BAD. We are what we are- GOOD. And that's the way it

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Quote #75738

Small Acts of Kindness are Priceless

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But we all suffer. For we all prize and love; and in this present existence of ours, prizing and lov

Author: Nicholas Wolterstorff
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It is better to have a warm than cold heart.

Author: Unknown
Quote #455822

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Author: Baruch Spinoza
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When you follow your thoughts you follow a ghost.

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Even the broken will fight

Author: D.P.Prior
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Don't cross the boundaries.

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Quote #379991

But it would be broadcast, and in the great public theatre of his age; that unregulated market of br

Author: Adam Nevill
Quote #469348

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Author: Confucius
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The written word is what distinguishes us from all other animal life forms on this earth.

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Dude." Jason gave Percy a bear hug."Back from Tartarus!" Leo whooped. "That's my peeps!

Author: Rick Riordan
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The paradigm for our relationships is formed from our earliest experiences and is actually hardwired

Author: Sharon Salzberg
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We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate i

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One day, my lady." said Mr. Keeper, stepping aside and allowing her to join them, "I should hope I w

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Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.

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Lovers are easy to find and easy to forget but finding an authentic connection is exceptional and li

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Sorry," I said. There was little healing power in the word, but maybe the Inspectre wasn't looking t

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For some people, she thought, trials were only temporary; they sailed towards happiness through the

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He buried his nose in his pillow and went to sleep—to dream of anything rather than getting on in th

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We couldn’t be friends. We couldn’t be enemies.So what were we?

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Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world -

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Integrity, undivided loyalty, love. The pure in heart have a special blessing. Because there is no l

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Sometimes the rues don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now afford

Author: Hamza Yusuf
Quote #9700

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

Author: Aristotle
Quote #440017

I knew I was going to love my daughter, but I had no idea how much I would love her.

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Quote #179489

The past is only making you to spill tears, tears of joy or tears pain. But anyway they are making y

Author: T.A
Quote #455708

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is

Author: Tom Waits
Quote #162151

There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery - Cassel Sharpe

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Quote #478459

Whether that's positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and

Author: Kevin Spacey
Quote #437190

Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my g

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Quote #280456

Once I told Ha�anala about the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. . . . I told her how Abraham bargained

Author: Mary Doria Russell
Quote #309711

We don't permit anyone to tell us our business, nor do we wish to tell anyone his. The same goes for

Author: James Carlos Blake
Quote #201949

Men were weird. Especially men made of tempered steel and fire and perpetual darkness. Or men with p

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Quote #495194

I don't smile much, and I never laugh. If you'd been through what I've been through, you wouldn't be

Author: Charlie Sifford
Quote #482730

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

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Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others

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