“I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.”
— Kurt Russell
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Category: knowledge
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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing
“Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.”
— Sigmund Freud
Author: Sigmund Freud
Category: wisdom
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell
“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Category: sad
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I had to satisfy the action fans,
“I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.”
— Sidney Poitier
Author: Sidney Poitier
Category: romantic
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Religion must completely encircle the spirit of
“Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Category: religion
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Italians know about human nature – they
“Italians know about human nature – they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.”
— Donna Leon
Author: Donna Leon
Category: nature
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King consciously steered away from legal claims
“King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.”
— Constance Baker Motley
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Category: legal
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A firm, for instance, that does business
“A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.”
— Edward Sapir
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Category: money
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We have had a chance to travel
“We have had a chance to travel to all 56 counties in this state, and I have had the chance to sit around with cups of coffee and having conversations about what matters to Montanans.”
— Steve Daines
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Category: travel
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When you stop learning, stop listening, stop
“When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.”
— Lillian Smith
Author: Lillian Smith
Category: learning
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What makes the pain we feel from
“What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: jealousy
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