You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress. ~Shimon Peres
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In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends on the rate at which oxygen can reach the fibres by diffusion. ~Archibald Hill
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it is better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown
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I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer. ~Frank Sinatra
#quotes #frank-sinatra #entertainment #love

I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film. ~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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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
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In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity. ~Sun Tzu
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes. ~Ferdinand Mount
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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Everybody has talent, it is just a matter of moving around until you have discovered what it is. ~George Lucas
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously? ~Steve Stevaert
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
#quotes #jane-austen #life #faults

And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
#quotes #emily-watson #relationship #surprise

I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. ~Pauline Kael
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success. ~Martin Van Buren
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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