Things Quotes
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We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.
— Frank A. Clark
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One of the things I'm always proud of is 'Promises made, promises kept.' I've never ever not done what I've said I'm going to do.
— Russell Pearce
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And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken care of can we presume…
— Cynthia Heimel
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Some things are better eschewed than chewed; tobacco is one of them.
— George D. Prentice
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Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or…
— Thomas Carlyle
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You cannot stop smoking directly because it has many related things, implications. You are tense, and if you stop smoking you will start something else…
— Rajneesh
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I am less interested in your chain-smoking; I am more interested in your habit. Any habit that becomes a force, a dominating force over you,…
— Rajneesh
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A meditator cannot smoke, for the simple reason that he never feels nervous, in anxiety, in tension. Smoking helps - on a momentary basis -…
— Rajneesh
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I am very mistrustful of people who are constantly over intellectualising things. It kills passion. You have to allow yourself to lose control from time…
— Eric Cantona
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Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one another, because this…
— Thomas Merton
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It's better to have fewer things of quality than too much expendable junk.
— Rachel Zoe
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The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and…
— Harrison Ford
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No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and…
— Laozi
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...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.
— Constantin Brancusi
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Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of this, I found…
— Willem de Kooning
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Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the…
— Martin Luther
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Liberalism and Western-style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity. Today, these two concepts have failed. Those with insight can…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence.…
— Christopher Hitchens
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