Nature is a petrified magic city.
Novalis
Recitation: by Male by Female
I'm pretty good at saying no to things, at discerning between what I'm supposed to do and what I'm not supposed to do.
Andrew Garfield
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Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Ambrose Bierce
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Foot-binding is said to have been inspired by a tenth-century court dancer named Yao Niang who bound her feet into the shape of a new moon. She entranced Emperor Li Yu by dancing on her toes inside a six-foot golden lotus festooned with ribbons and precious stones.
Amanda Foreman
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I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.
Toni Collette
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What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!
Rita Dove
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Rudyard Kipling
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I had been reading magazines a lot, and I love magazines, and so I was always asking myself why is it that these gorgeous articles just don't translate well to the web? Presentation was one aspect of it.
Mike McCue
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Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.
Djimon Hounsou
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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
Dick Gregory
JobBetterAmericaYouWhiteOut
Having a stadium in France named after a footballer from the Ivory Coast, even if I'm proud of my France-Ivory Coast background, is a great proof of integration.
Didier Drogba
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Nigerian politics has been, since the military dictatorships, largely non-ideological. Rather than a battle of ideas, it is about who can pump in the most money and buy the most access.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
MoneyPoliticsIdeasBattleMilitary
If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me - I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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