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The ideal of my life was and remained the duty that I think was given to me at birth, by the fate fairy, for being useful on this land, to my people. I have tried to leave traces of my passing on...

Author: Ion Marin Almajan (1940) | Theme: Ideal | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

Author: Stephen Robert Irwin (1962 - 2006) | Theme: Education | Clicks: 770 | Rank: 9.60 | Fav

Should I understand that love is the reverse of out life, that it is death? That we live in this life in which we hope to have the chance to love, so to die? Let me drink from the glass of your...

Author: Sorin Cerin (1963) | Theme: Love | Clicks: 197 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

True religion must fight against Evil in man and be aside him, being the only way to avoid existing Evil of the human self in another type of Evil that will be closer to Good or could even surpass...

Author: Sorin Cerin (1963) | Theme: Religion | Clicks: 167 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not...

Author: William Penn (1644 - 1718) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 106 | Rank: 0 | Fav

We suddenly saw how people reacted in the event of massive social upheaval, and the way that the little problems in your life don't go away. You don't stop being frightened of spiders just because...

Author: Simon Pegg (1970) | Theme: People | Clicks: 156 | Rank: 0 | Fav

One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of...

Author: James Payn (1830 - 1898) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 127 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Author: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 90 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.

Author: Francis Parkman (1823 - 1893) | Theme: Country | Clicks: 149 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

Author: Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 90 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.

Author: Larry Hagman (1931) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 122 | Rank: 0 | Fav

What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.

Author: Boy George (1961) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 124 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make...

Author: Orson Scott (1951) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 89 | Rank: 0 | Fav

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Author: Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 134 | Rank: 0 | Fav

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do -or don't do.

Author: Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 84 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

Author: Irving Babbitt (1865-1933) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 124 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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