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Octavio Paz

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JAMES C. DOBSON It is what it is, it is what you make it.
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STEVEN STRAIT 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???

What's the idea???
DEYTH BANGER The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
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ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask...
JAY NORTHCOTE I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.
PITTACUS LORE Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.
LEMONY SNICKET It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Anyone can learn how to communicate with animals if they are open to the process and willing to prac...
KAREN A. ANDERSON If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to ...
LARRY MCMURTRY Better to feel nothing, to be numb, than to lose control. It's the only way I know to deal with it.
JULIE KAGAWA Getting on with her life is important. But right now it may be more important to put the feelings ou...
JENNIFER BROWN If you didn't see it with your own eyes, or hear it with your own ears, don't invent it with your sm...
ANONYMOUS ‎"...If you did not see it with your own eyes, or hear it with your own ears, don't invent it with...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Sometimes shit's gotta be done and I just fuckin' do it!
MANUEL MONGRAIN Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON Don't Just Let it Happen, Make it Happen!
JUAN A. JIMENEZ People become more ignorant when it comes to religion.
DANIEL MELGAçO You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married."

"I...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL We want to hear from the public. They are our eyes and ears in the marketplace.
EDWIN RODRIGUEZ To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who t...
CRISTIANO RONALDO The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.
OUIDA Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films m...
PETER SHAFFER It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN Your ears love to hear, so speak to it
SOTONYE ANGA To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
BIJOU HUNTER Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL You're the creator of your own future. Get to writing.
ASHLEY BROOKE ROBBINS You cannot control what other people do, only how you react to it.
JEFFREY FRY Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid...
KURT VONNEGUT I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As...
KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When people see and hear testimony with their own eyes and ears, we have a better opportunity to und...
HENRY SCHLEIFF I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES It is time for us to move on to our promised land!!! It’s time to begin to believe that with God o...
SUNDAY ADELAJA The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all.
LALAH DELIA One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if i...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY They can't give you all that, Mr Jimson,' said Walter, who was upset. 'It wouldn't be right. What wo...
JOYCE CARY - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.
- Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.
HARRY HOUDINI Miracles... seem to me to rest not so much upon... healing power coming suddenly near us from afar b...
WILLA CATHER Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Don't take it easy until life goes down to your level.
EMILY THOMAS I want to be honest, and even if that's scary, I know it's worth it.
EMM GRYNER I'm just not into trying to convince people like me. I always say to myself, 'It is what it ...
NENE LEAKES You should base everything on what you see with your own eyes, hear with your own ears and feel with...
TANYA MASSE If you don't want to read it, see it or hear it, don't say it.
SOURCE UNKNOWN There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.
CASSANDRA CLARE You have eyes and ears but do you truly see and hear ?
ANIL GUPTA Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
JOYCE RACHELLE To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the cap...
TIMOTHY HEALY Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS It is better to choose a wife with your ears than with your eyes.
VIKRANT PARSAI He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
LAURIE FRANKEL You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
ALBERTO CAEIRO Anywhere there is life, there are eyes. And things, too, speak to those who have ears to hear.
EIJI YOSHIKAWA Life is a magical game so play it with love.
DEBASISH MRIDHA To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another...
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MARGARET MITCHELL In the religious life it is possible to commit an analogous error, and to prize so unwisely peaceful...
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MUHAMMAD IMRAN HASAN

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OCTAVIO PAZ Deserve your dream.
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