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Oscar Wilde quote: "I am getting rather astonishing in my Italian conversation. I..."

I am getting rather astonishing in my Italian conversation. I believe I talk a mixture of Dante and the worst modern slang.

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if you are unwilling to endure your own suffering even for an hour, and ontinually forestall all possible misfortune, if you regard as deserving of annihilation, any suffering and pain generally as evil, as detestable, and as blots on existence, well, you have then, besides your religion of compassion, yet another religion in your heart (and this is perhaps the mother of the former)-the religion of smug ease. Ah, how little you know of the happiness of man, you comfortable and good-natured... Friedrich Nietzsche
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I always do the contrary of what my coaches tell me. Bode Miller
Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in Pakistan, we're spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense? Joe Biden
You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. C. S. Lewis
O. Henry quote: "A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows."
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows. O. Henry
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To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past. Charles J. Givens
All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards thier goal. The great scientists, the philosophers, the religious leaders - all maniacs. What else but a blind singlenee of purpose could have given focus to thier genius, would have kept them in the groove of purpose. Mania ... is as priceless as genius. Ian Fleming
I'm shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won't sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I'm certainly not going to go on somebody's lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress? Farrah Fawcett
Moreover, there was what Amy called “the cocksuckers’ contingent of the country”—what Danny knew as the dumber-than-dog-shit element, those bully patriots—and they were too set in their ways or too poorly educated (or both) to see beyond the ceaseless flag-waving and nationalistic bluster. John Irving
Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea. Scott Reed
Now we are showing to the world that this fighting against two terrorist groups was feasible and now we have an isolated case which doesn't mean that terrorism is alive, as it was before. Alberto Fujimori
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that..."
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She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty. Elizabeth Gaskell
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Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government. Bill Weld
Isaac Bashevis Singer quote: "A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps."
A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps. Isaac Bashevis Singer