Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. ~Pearl Bailey
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Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. ~Jan Karon
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The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements, people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts, are fatal. ~Ward McAllister
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There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned. ~Nizar Qabbani
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People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun. ~Peter O'Toole
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like. ~Alexander Payne
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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. ~William Hazlitt
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. ~William Osler
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Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill. ~S.M. Stirling
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. ~Friedrich Schiller
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid. ~Rafael Nadal
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There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way. ~Harvey Fierstein
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To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. ~William Arthur Ward
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. ~Arthur Ashe
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We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend. ~Tony Snow
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I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I would bring things to class that I had cooked at home. ~Giada De Laurentiis
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