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Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
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So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
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So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
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no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
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I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
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What you taken for granted, could mean a lot to another.
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Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
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Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
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Like a deep sad note
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ALEX FERGUSON
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We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
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Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
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She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.
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He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
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The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.
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I've been clear that Brexit means Brexit.
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it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.
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All concepts of making a point is another failure of communication.
DEYTH BANGER
I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
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Knowledge causes depression and a lot of pressure.
DEYTH BANGER
This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
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Be yourself and people will like you.
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The best person I know is Myself.
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I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not e...
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The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you...
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Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
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I’m caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it.
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HUGH MACKAY
It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to ...
HUGH MACKAY
I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for sayin...
HUGH MACKAY
Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely con...
HUGH MACKAY
Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people pre...
HUGH MACKAY
The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio ser...
HUGH MACKAY
The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal litera...
HUGH MACKAY
Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familia...
HUGH MACKAY
I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people...
HUGH MACKAY
It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.
HUGH MACKAY
The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour ...
HUGH MACKAY
Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that c...
HUGH MACKAY
Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to em...
HUGH MACKAY
Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all ava...
HUGH MACKAY
No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?
HUGH MACKAY
Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was some...
HUGH MACKAY
Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.
HUGH MACKAY
One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling ...
HUGH MACKAY
So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on ...
HUGH MACKAY
When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's ...
HUGH JACKMAN
Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be...
HUGH LAURIE
I have done many movies that people hadn't seen. 'The Fountain,' I spent a year on that....
HUGH JACKMAN
Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, ...
HUGH LAURIE
I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can so...
HUGH JACKMAN
I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.
HUGH LAURIE
The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are bu...
HUGH HEFNER
I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you oft...
HUGH LAURIE
Perfectionism is a slow death....If everything were to turn out just as I would want it, just as I w...
HUGH PRATHER
I think that the American people should rest assured and be assured that every federal agency that h...
HUGH SHELTON
A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hem...
HUGH MACKAY
The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life wa...
HUGH HEFNER
Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we p...
HUGH JACKMAN
Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My par...
HUGH JACKMAN
I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don&...
HUGH JACKMAN
The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Z...
HUGH JACKMAN
I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frai...
HUGH MACKAY
Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And wh...
HUGH PRATHER
A mentor long departed told me that the greatest gift in political life, in any life, is to view you...
HUGH CAREY
A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a...
HUGH SIDEY