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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterpri...
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PETER C. DOHERTY I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
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THE PROPHET OF LIFE I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind....
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Don't accentuate our differences,
but instead focus on our similarities.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS When each and every believer rises up to serve others and function according to their capacity, the ...
HENRY HON We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Percy was getting tired of water.
If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Po...
RICK RIORDAN Eros (or call it lust if you will), is like a beautiful, magnificent Afghan Hound! A pure white Afgh...
C. JOYBELL C. We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha...
L.M. MONTGOMERY At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, w...
RICK RIORDAN The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously inv...
P. J. O'ROURKE We are gaining information on the differences and similarities between viral mechanisms and eukaryot...
EVA NOGALES Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or posse...
JOHN LOCKE We still should have enough time to reach Rome.”
Hazel scowled. “When you say should hav...
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“You name your furniture?” Frank asked.
RICK RIORDAN He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly...
RICK RIORDAN Did someone just call me the wine dude?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, pleas...
RICK RIORDAN Reyna looked at Percy without much hope. “You do have a plan?”
Percy wanted to step ...
RICK RIORDAN Percy blinked. “So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother, which means ...
RICK RIORDAN I can’t believe how much this place has grown,” Hazel muttered.
The taxi driver grinned in...
RICK RIORDAN Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he c...
JOHN PIPER Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stor...
CARRIE RYAN Anger - a beast within us that needs taming.
SARU SINGHAL Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.
BERTHA VON SUTTNER The real thing that keeps men and women apart, is fear. Women blame men and men blame women, but the...
C. JOYBELL C. Yay!” Tyson went around the couches and gave everyone a big hug—even Octavian, who didn't look t...
RICK RIORDAN Hazel!” he yelled. “That box! Open it!”
She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te labe...
RICK RIORDAN If not for the horses, Piper would've died.
RICK RIORDAN Pluto's pauldrons,” Reyna cursed.
RICK RIORDAN But I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intel...
DANIEL KEYES Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH THE DECLARATION of the Rights of Man at the end of the eighteenth century was a turning point in his...
HANNAH ARENDT It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us—long-range radar, still not in sight.” RICK RIORDAN Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS And what good is a voice when so few will listen?
STACEY JAY When unity of the mind, speech and body occurs, God has called that the ‘foremost’ religion. If ...
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CARRE OTIS Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN They are differences but there are a lot of similarities.
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His hair was grease...
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“Tempting,” ...
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ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS

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ALFRED NOBEL Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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ALFRED NOBEL Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. -Alfred Bernhard Nobel.
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Theirs but to do and die
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
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ALFRED SHEINWOLD Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
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ALFRED KORZYBSKI Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...
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ALFRED TENNYSON Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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ALFRED ADLER To be human means to feel inferior.
ALFRED ADLER We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
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ALFRED ADLER There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
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ALFRED ADLER I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assem...
ALFRED BUNN We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK Here lies who, born a man, a grocer died. [Fr., Ne homme--mort epicier.]
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ALFRED ADLER Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
ALFRED ADLER Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
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ALFRED MARSHALL In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a no...
ALFRED MARSHALL The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such c...
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ALFRED MARSHALL It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all thing...
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ALFRED MARSHALL But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money...
ALFRED MARSHALL Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
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ALFRED MARSHALL All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indir...
ALFRED MARSHALL Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benef...
ALFRED MARSHALL All labour is directed towards producing some effect.
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ALFRED MARSHALL Consumption may be regarded as negative production.
ALFRED MARSHALL One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
ALFRED KAZIN There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the...
ALFRED AUSTIN Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
ALFRED AUSTIN Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
ALFRED AUSTIN Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
ALFRED AUSTIN The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden i...
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ALFRED HERSHEY O love, O fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight...
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ALFRED STIEGLITZ In the American Grain: Dove, Hartley, Marin, O'Keeffe and Stieglitz
ALFRED STIEGLITZ Wherever there is light, one can photograph.
ALFRED STIEGLITZ The goal of art was the vital expression of self.
ALFRED STIEGLITZ As I hold the future well-being of photography very dear I must see to it that these forces which mi...
ALFRED STIEGLITZ In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
ALFRED STIEGLITZ Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with phot...
ALFRED STIEGLITZ The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expr...
ALFRED STIEGLITZ I do not object to retouching, dodging. or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the na...
ALFRED STIEGLITZ Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
ALFRED SMITH Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, y...
ALFRED SMITH The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
ALFRED SMITH