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Petrarch Quotes

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: italian
Birth: July 20, 1304 - July 19, 1374

Topics

Born More Throne Fortune Honorable

I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.

Morning Time Sleep Night Thinking

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

Nature God Man Miracle

To spend time in Silicon Valley in a year of political upheaval is, on one level, soothing. It is pleasant to hear talk of wearables, walled gardens, and disruptive beverages in between updates about mass deportation.

Anand Giridharadas

Time Political Year Talk Valley

At the end of each year, I sit on the floor and go page by page through the old calendar, inking annual events into the new one, all the while watching my year in 'dinner withs' skate by. When I'm done, I save the old calendar in the box of the new one and put it with the others on a shelf.

Dinner End Year Calendar New Done

The recession of the late 1980s was a very visible humiliation. Cities across Britain had become the victims of botched battlefield surgery - surgery that involved the ripping up of factories, the flattening of buildings, and the razing of the Victorian heritage of heavy labour.

Buildings Late Heritage Become Heavy

We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.

Teen Fair First Radio Out Contract

For insurance solvency, ongoing plan participation is vital.

Plan Insurance Participation Vital

I was rather disappointed, because the one thing I wanted to gain from that opportunity was to add something to his music, and have him add something to mine.

Music Opportunity Him Disappointed

I had a vision how it should sound and I put all my knowledge into this product and it is a fantastic product. People still tell me that I have the best musical thing there.

Miroslav Vitous

Knowledge Vision Best People Me

I'm more embarrassed about some of the films that I've been in than I am about Playboy. Playboy I'm actually quite proud of.

Claudia Christian

I Am Proud More Embarrassed Been

My family comes from Panama, and I grew up in a single parent household with my mother, who barely spoke English. She couldn't get a good job, yet there were four of us for her to raise.

Family Good Mother Job Parent She

I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.

Change Fire Me Political Never Out

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