I could wish there were a God, if it were only to ask him to bless thee. - Elizabeth Gaskell

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I actually don't like hip hop much; the music is too clichéd, the subculture, especially the macho strutting of gangsta rappers, isn't my thing. But, at the same time, rap is a simple, direct and strong musical language.

Elizabeth Gaskell

I could wish there were a God, if it were only to ask him to bless thee.

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The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

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I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.

Book, Cakes, Child, Children, Eye, Mouth

Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.

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There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

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But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.

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David Lloyd George

Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children--that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.

Begs, Children, Employment, Men, Seeks, Work

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Accepting the view that man was prior in the creation, some Scriptural writers say that as the woman was of the man, therefore, her position should be one of subjection. Grant it, then as the historical fact is reversed in our day, and the man is now of the woman, shall his place be one of subjection?

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Jude Law

Rafferty [Law] plays three or four instruments. He is very gifted. Whereas I pick instruments up and kind of stare at them and go, "I can't ever possibly play this. " And I don't!

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Byron Katie

If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don’t have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.

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Shahin Najafi

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