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Ella Maillart Quotes

I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it - why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: swiss
Birth: February 20, 1903 - March 27, 1997

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Man I Am Rose Wish Why Everything

Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.

World Song Play Constantly Anyone

I didn't learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.

Water Mountains Cold Learn Wyoming

I just have a serious problem with business for business' sake: this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil.

Business Evil Problem Serious Just

In 1984, showing extraordinary courage, a group of Guatemalan wives, mothers and other relatives of disappeared people banded together to form the Mutual Support Group for the Appearance Alive of Our Relatives.

Courage Together Support People

England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my disinheritance by absorbing the world of others... I loved them: George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens... I adopted them passionately.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Me World Loved Literature My Own Up

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.

Patriotism War Reaction Away Instant

Someone who is wrongfully accused needs to do their best to put it behind them and move on.

Best Someone Move On Move Behind

I had a recurring stress dream since I was a kid 10 years old. My friend Travis is driving, and I'm afraid we're going to get in trouble. We keep passing people I recognize, and no one is doing anything. Travis keeps driving faster. I've had that dream a long time.

Friend Time Stress People Driving

Singers like Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar are very conscious of what's going on around them, and they're waking up lot of young people with that knowledge. They bring their enlightenment to the world; the world that is buying their records.

Knowledge People World Enlightenment

I was always the second heavy.

Broderick Crawford

Always Heavy Second

For several days in July of 2012, Greenland surface ice cover melted more than at any time in 30 years of satellite observation. During that month, an estimated 97% of the ice sheet thawed.

Time Ice Observation More Month

I'm obsessed with fresh breath.

Breath Fresh Obsessed

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