Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
William Shenstone
Recitation: by Male by Female
I think ageing suits me because I was born old, like Spencer Tracy or Dolly the Sheep.
Jeremy Hardy
MeThinkSuitsSheepBornOld
I usually go with the 'less is more' approach.
Andreja Pejic
GoMoreLess Is MoreApproachLess
Everybody, I think, who hopes to become a judge would aspire to be able to write as well as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. None are going to be able to attain that.
Merrick Garland
JusticeThinkJudgeBecomeWrite
Rwanda has emerged from the devastation of genocide and become more secure and prosperous than anyone had a right to expect.
Stephen Kinzer
BecomeMoreRightGenocideExpect
You can look at it and say I'm doing this better or that better, but the bottom line is, I just learned to be mentally tougher.
Stipe Miocic
BetterDoingYouLookSayLine
My decision to leave applied mathematics for economics was in part tied to the widely-held popular belief in the 1960s that macroeconomics had made fundamental inroads into controlling business cycles and stopping dysfunctional unemployment and inflation.
Robert C. Merton
BusinessMathematicsDecisionBelief
They say Afghanistan is the worst country for a girl to be born. Hogwash!
Rula Ghani
GirlBornCountrySayWorstHogwash
Ultimately, there are only two emotions: love and fear. And pretty much anything else you want to name can be broken down into one of those.
Mary Steenburgen
LoveFearBrokenNameYouDown
The forward march of American literature is usually chronicled by way of its male novelists. There is little sense, in that version of the story, that women writers of those eras were doing much worth remembering.
Michelle Dean
WomenForwardStoryAmericanDoing
When we complain to Egypt's Western allies about whichever autocrat is in power, we are asked, 'But who is the alternative?' It is a question designed to frustrate.
Mona Eltahawy
PowerEgyptQuestionComplainAllies
Two decades after communism and the alleged end of the Cold War, Russia is still a cash economy. The preferred currency is dollars, though euros are also acceptable.
Luke Harding
WarCommunismColdEndEconomyTwo
I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.
Lucian Freud
PeopleHappenPaintBecauseLike
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