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A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every moment we are… — Swami Vivekananda
A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable… — Baruch Spinoza
If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea… — William Hazlitt
I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal, the extirpation of… — Albert Einstein
You have to minimize your losses and try to preserve capital for those very few instances where you can make a lot in a very… — Richard Dennis
The urge to move is natural and understandable. As will be the case throughout your life, no matter how long or brief, the choice is,… — Ron Currie Jr.
Language development, for instance, has a critical period that begins in infancy and ends between eight years and puberty. After this critical period closes, a… — Norman Doidge
Once Iâ€™m obsessed with somebody, Iâ€™m terrified of them instantly. Iâ€™m not scared of them â€” Iâ€™m scared of meand how I will react. Like,… — Jennifer Lawrence
I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
Unfortunately, or perhaps it is fortunate that I have always been forced to stand on my acting ability. I haven't a personality such as Jack… — William Powell
When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that's my food you see at the end of the show and it's not… — Rachael Ray
I feel that it's important to fail now and again. For instance, if I go for a job and I don't get it, that makes… — Romola Garai
Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and Iâ€™m not going… — Eleanor Clift
I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way. — Shelby Foote
Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable… — Warren Beatty
These past couple of years have been about learning to not sabotage myself in a subtler way - for instance, even just by putting moisturiser… — Maggie Gyllenhaal
There are some instances where you may be ahead of us, for example, in the development of the thrust of your rockets for the investigation… — Richard M. Nixon
Iâ€™m really looking forward to embracing some of the great traditions at the University of Tennessee, for instance the Vol Walk, running through the T,… — Lane Kiffin
The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children. That is, nothing… — Steven Spielberg
The Pan-Africanism that envisaged the ideal of wholeness was gradually cut down to the size of a continent, then a nation, a region, an ethnos,… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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