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“There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.”

Knows May Desire Wish Interest Pride Curiosity Various Ignorant

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I'm out there arguing the Labor case. I will do it anywhere and everywhere that I can. I do it within various communities across Australia where I am able to make a positive contribution. And let me tell you, my voice won't be silenced in the public debate because the issue at stake for Australia are so stark.”

I Can Able Voice Community Cases Issues Labor Let Me Various Arguing Debate Contribution Australia Stakes Starks

Author:Kevin Rudd

“At various times over 20 years, I did preliminary designs for aircraft like the Stratolaunch. For that whole time I was encouraging us to do something that almost everyone else felt you could not do.”

Years Whole Felt Design Various Aircraft

Author:Burt Rutan

“The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.”

Ideas Form Process Various New Things Typical Units Sibelius

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“Among the various vernaculars that are spoken in different parts of India, there is one that stands out strongly from the rest, as that which is most widely known. It is Hindi. A man who knows Hindi can travel over India and find everywhere Hindi-speaking people.”

People Knows Men Different Known India Various Standing Out Hindi

Book:The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs

Source: The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs

“As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.”

Knows Political Views Numbers Aim Trade Unions Workers Various Advertising Agencies Trade Unions Political View

Author:Fritz Sauckel

“Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.”

People World Kind Has Beens Force Century Involved Aim Various Tricks Establishment Stamps Get Involved Examination Dissent

Author:Pete Seeger

“We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on.”

Ends Together Gone Week Design Areas Various Get Back Construction Engineers Phases Testing Back Together

Author:Alan Shepard

“It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.”

Values Elements Understood Various Contact Comparison Relative Worthlessness Relative Value

Author:Hu Shih

“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.”

Ifs Inspirational Trying May Motivational Success Women Successful Failing Atheism Positive Failure Giving Up Empowerment Entrepreneur Athlete Disappointment Various Singers Uplifting Disappointed Women Empowerment Fitness Doomed Bad Ass Empowered Empowering Women Fear Of Failure Keep Trying Success And Failure Disappoint Self Empowerment Entrepreneurial Great Success Success Failure Empowered Women Women Empowering Women Determination And Success Inspirational Success Failure In Life Failure Inspirational Inspirational Success Failure Perseverance And Determination Greatest Success Trying New Things Failure Motivational Great Determination Inspirational Determination Entrepreneur Motivational Risk And Failure I Will Never Give Up Opera Singers Famous Musician Disappointment Love Disappointment In Friends Being Disappointed Bitter Disappointment Failure Of Leadership Trying And Failing I Am Disappointed People Disappoint Disappointed In You Disappointed Love Trying Something New

Author:Beverly Sills

“If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.”

Ifs Writing Novel Progress Stage Lucky Various Foolishness

Book:Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

Source: Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods.”

Two Reason Felt Black Months Various Mood Horrible Wander Mess Desperate

Author:Robert Smith

“Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.”

Way Writing Various My Way Eliminating

Author:Zadie Smith

“In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.”

Art Style Art Is Finals Various Analysis Representation

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.”

Want Feels Kind Serious Wake Up Passionate Various Engagement Alienation

Author:Susan Sontag

“I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up.”

Ifs World Years Feelings School Jobs Law Wonder Various Shoulders Law School Princeton

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies' courses.”

Made Courses Teach Study Research Claims Various Dare Gender Professors Publish

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.”

Ifs States Loss Poor Taxes Benefits Rate Various Income Welfare Stamps Housing Welfare State Subsidies Food Stamps

Author:Thomas Sowell

“In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people.”

People Country Problem Hate Behinds Leader Groups Taught Blame Various Followers

Author:Thomas Sowell

“But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.”

Art Form Social Audience Effects Communication Theater Various Multimedia

Author:Wole Soyinka

“By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.”

Writing Done Reading Literature Speak Novel Areas Asking Various Variety Genre Mechanic Asking Questions

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.”

Various Absent Music Business

Author:Cat Stevens

“I've studied various schools of thought ... I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited, but I've found a lot of evidence from the life of the Prophet to show that he allowed certainly, but even encouraged, music at certain times ...”

Shows School Certain Found Evidence Various Acknowledge Prophet

Author:Cat Stevens

“Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.”

Inspirational Writing Book Different Reading Inspiring Style Type Various Producers Novelists Reading Books Screenwriters Different Styles Joy Of Reading Different Books

Author:R. L. Stine

“I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.”

Has Beens Running Used Five Various Miles Fitness Regimes Aerobics

Author:Sting

“The college stations have a big voice, and I would like to become more involved with them. I would like to have symposiums with the members of various college radio stations.”

Bigs Voice College Involved Members Radio Various Stations Radio Stations

Author:Angie Stone

“What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they hold that office, they spend all their time in office paying back over and over again those campaign contributions through various favors and contracts and that sort of thing.”

Whole Interest Situation Politician Office Various Favors Campaigns Bunch Contribution Contracts Campaign Contributions

Author:Matt Taibbi

“Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.”

Ifs Knows Life Needs Mind Happens Success Energy Results Focus Achieve Various Active Focused Things Happen Backgrounds Cricket Frame Of Mind Sportsman Cricketers Foreground

Author:Sachin Tendulkar

“I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.”

Inspirational Art Dance Various Categories Divides

Author:Twyla Tharp

“I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.”

Inspirational Sports Basketball Including Various Tennis Billiards

Author:Yani Tseng

“For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.”

Character Literature My Own Blood Various Surrogates

Author:Anne Tyler

“As the different streams, having their sources in different places, all mingle their water in the sea; O Lord, so the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.”

Different Water Sea Source Various Tendencies Streams Crooked

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.”

People Stories Ordinary Impact Presses Various Traditional Journalism Ignored Ordinary People Blogs Grassroots Being Ignored

Author:Jimmy Wales

“Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.”

People World Government Suffering Party Movement Right Now Various Confused So Confused

Author:Alice Walker

“War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.”

Kind War Used Water Air Planets Surprise Various Planes Fuel Bombs Global Warming Fragile Rockets Interconnected Helicopters Air And Water

Author:Alice Walker

“I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me.”

Thinking Self Today Our Lives Periods Painful Various Hopeless Weaving Self Confident

Author:Hugo Weaving

“You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.”

Knows Art Facts Wisdom Causes Impossible Modern Despair Perfection Various Quarters

Author:Morris West

“I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.”

People Different Stories Happens Bits Cases Various

Book:Wharton's New England: Seven Stories and Ethan Frome

Source: Wharton's New England: Seven Stories and Ethan Frome

“Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.”

Men Mind Holy Argument Various Command Obedience Urges

Book:Sermons on important subjects

Source: Sermons on important subjects

“Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.”

Knows Men World Way Enough Light Running Romance Given Sex Women Ears Add Various Tongue Toes Sincerely Lecturer Lingering

Book:A Woman's Worth

Source: A Woman's Worth

“I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.”

People Thinking I Can Different Would Be Christian Speak Language Term Fire Various Tongue Contemporary Breathing I've Learned I Have Learned Interfaces Fervent Different Languages Lexicon

Author:Bono

“Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.”

I Can Eye Force Acting Style Wall Personality Pure Various Woods Mood Holes Dialogue Bags Fourth Refugee Odor Bad Mood Reciting Bad Acting

Author:James Wolcott

“In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.”

Ifs Deals Cost Prepared Strive Various Appropriate Be Prepared Flexibility Flexible Thinking Flexibly

Book:Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas

Source: Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas

“The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men.”

Men World Mind Earth Literature Language Identity Speech Logic Notion Various Tongue Vocal

Book:The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses

Source: The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses

“Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.”

Form Order Bounds Various Department Subversion

Author:Bob Woodward

“Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.”

People Talking Economic Development Needed Program Dollars Investing Various Billions Economic Development

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.”

“Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts.”

Wells Children Home Social Wife Destruction Towns Trade Unions Democratic Various Illegal Organs Invasion Approved Belgium Massacres Trade Unions Guerrillas

Author:Clara Zetkin

“Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected and measured by coincidences; this provides valuable information about the structure of the atomic nuclei.”

Information Structure Various Valuable Nuclear Reactions Radiation Coincidence Nucleus Coupling

Author:Walther Bothe

“I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation.”

Has Beens Lines Products Sells Various Temptation Knives Dozen Automobile Airline Liquor Merchandise Apparel

Author:Anthony Bourdain

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