Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
#quotes #muriel-barbery #world

I'm a little concerned I'm always going to be playing a black guy, you know what I'm saying? ~Dule Hill
#quotes #dule-hill #acting #black

All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. ~Edward Snowden
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
#quotes #robert-lanza #conscious #time #space

Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
#quotes #edgar-degas #art #attitude

I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. ~Patti Smith
#quotes #patti-smith #music #puccini #little-richard

I've just got to do a good job and stay on in Formula One for as long as I can. ~Kimi Raikkonen
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people. ~Robert Frost
#quotes #robert-frost #democracy

One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
#quotes #marie-rutkoski #galileo #time #science #superstition

In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. ~Seth Godin
#quotes #seth-godin #mediocrity

Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs #hypocrisy

Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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I didn't go to drama school, so I feel like I did all my growing up on "Hollyoaks." ~Nathalie Emmanuel
#quotes #nathalie-emmanuel #entertainment

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ~Malabar Proverb
#proverbs #malabar-proverbs #anger

I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
#quotes #mariella-frostrup #children #family

I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them. ~Helen Mirren
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Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex. ~Warren Farrell
#quotes #warren-farrell #relationship #alcohol

A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs #learning

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. ~Charles Caleb
#quotes #charles-caleb-colton #saints #hypocrisy

I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school. ~Valentino Garavani
#quotes #valentino-garavani #schooling #childhood