Ismail Kadare Quotes

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Ismail Kadare

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Every August, I go away for four weeks to a place in Michigan. I work in the mornings, spend the month in shorts and flip-flops. It gives me time to think like an investor and come back in September for some heavy planning.

Joe Mansueto

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I would certainly not support Trump in any way shape or form, but I want to have sympathy.

Andrew Haigh

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I've actually stopped tinting my windows because the paparazzi look for trucks and cars with supertinted windows.

Megan Fox

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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

John Muir

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I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.

John Henry Carver

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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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People are all at sixes and sevens with each other. They're always quarreling. They never somehow resolve anything.

Robert M. Pirsig

PeopleNeverAlwaysResolveAnything

Disney, who brought joy, arguably, to billions of people, was, perhaps, or had some... racist proclivities. He formed and supported an anti-Semitic industry lobby. And he was certainly, on the evidence of his company's policies, a gender bigot.

Meryl Streep

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And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.

John Rowland

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Union members not only earn higher median wages; they are more likely to have paid sick leave, short-term disability, and employer-provided child care. Giving people a voice at work - the ability to organize and negotiate for their fair share of the value they helped create - is absolutely essential to a growing, vibrant middle class.

Tom Perez

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Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

Mitt Romney

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When something is working well, it becomes too easy to let things run themselves.

Jason Fried

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