I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing; my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes. ~Gary Kemp
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I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. ~Stephen LaBerge
#quotes #stephen-laberge #childhood #world

There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second. ~Louis Dudek
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental. ~Henry Rollins
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I admit that, my wife is outspoken, but by whom? ~Sam Levenson
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We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church. ~Johnny Hunt
#quotes #johnny-hunt #christianity

If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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Courtesy does not exclude courage. ~Spanish Proverb
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
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There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives. ~James Bovard
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ~English Proverb
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Every great story seems to begin with a snake. ~Nicolas Cage
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent. ~David Lloyd
#quotes #david-lloyd #art #hope #reality

Everybody has talent, it is just a matter of moving around until you have discovered what it is. ~George Lucas
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being; just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them. ~Henrik Ibsen
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Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff. ~Mindy Kaling
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There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness. ~Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ~William James
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