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Julian Fellowes

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ABHYSHEQ SHUKLA Dont look back in anger, I heard you say...
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BARBARA DELINSKY This instant is the only time there is.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I am never upset for the reason I think.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Teach only love for that is what you are.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only my condemnation injures me.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only your mind can produce fear.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.
BRIAN CELIO The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory...
BARBARA TUCHMAN The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Life is a one time opportunity, DONT waste it. Because once its gone its not coming back.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with.
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STEVE ERICKSON Theres no electricity, stuff like that down there. Its a little different. Its going to be crazy.
AARON KATZ [Julian]"Remember, Mark is in charge.”
“Does he know that?” said Livvy.
Julian sough...
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MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottle
I make mistakes but learn from every one
...
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SRI SARADA DEVI I tell you one thing / if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see...
SRI SARADA DEVI There is one thing alone
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscien...
EURIPIDES For lack of a better term, I'm just ready for some closure. This thing has run its course.
GARY JOE KINNE I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
ANDY WARHOL We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
OSCAR WILDE We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
OSCAR WILDE if i dont write to empty my mind, i go mad
GEORGE GORDON BYRON A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.
LAUREN OLIVER ...the more I see the better satisfied I am that I am an American; free born and free bred, where I ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Not like I dont prepare for every second of my life.
BOB WHITE Look my story has been a really happy one except for that comment from John Brogden, so let's not dw...
BOB CARR I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing.
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HARUKI MURAKAMI With so many people in the world i am confident in saying, if you connect with someone on a soul lev...
NIKKI ROWE its a metephor, see: you put the killing thing right between your teeth but you dont give it the pow...
JOHN GREEN In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.
UNKNOWN I know one thing. If anyone thought I wouldn't look good in purple. Hah, hah. Look at me now.
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THICH NHAT HANH I might have been able to make it as a pitcher except for one thing: I had a rather awkward motion a...
CASEY STENGEL It's one of the shameful secrets we have, the beating of homeless for sport. It's a recreation thing...
MARTI FORMAN Use Discretion & Good Judgment. Don't share your most embarrassing moments with public exposure....
SUSAN C. YOUNG Why do I constantly feel as if all of you are speaking a foreign language? What is ‘grabbing a bur...
SHERRILYN KENYON Theres not one day where I realize how thankful I should be. For what I have, for what I will have a...
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JUSTIN PYFROM Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. ...
RAY BRADBURY War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD (Julian would learn something) even if he had one foot in the grave. [Lat., Etsi alterum pedem in...
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JEAN PLAIDY What do you want, MacGuffin, a duel?”
“No.” Julian held out both hands, one palm flat, th...
ABIGAIL ROUX You can't fail with linen. It gives the chair a European classic look of its own.
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KARL ROVE I loved a maid fair as summer, with sunlight in her hair.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Black is overrated. You'll never find it in my stores. Of course it's slimming, but it's...
BRUNELLO CUCINELLI The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
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ORHAN PAMUK The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one'...
C.S. LEWIS I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
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JULIAN ASSANGE The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being j...
JULIAN BAGGINI When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were ...
JULIAN ASSANGE The overwhelming success of San Antonio B-Cycle has proven that San Antonio is a model city for bike...
JULIAN CASTRO For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
JULIAN BARNES Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we...
JULIAN BOND My grandmother didn't live to see us begin our lives in public service. But she probably would h...
JULIAN CASTRO Of all the fictions we heard last week in Tampa, the one I find most troubling is this: If we all ju...
JULIAN CASTRO Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call fl...
JULIAN BAGGINI Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you f...
JULIAN BAGGINI The supposed revelations of God to humanity through Christ, or the word of God to Mohammed through t...
JULIAN BAGGINI It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one...
JULIAN BAGGINI You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue th...
JULIAN BAGGINI My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a k...
JULIAN SCHNABEL We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept...
JULIAN CASTRO Braque was like some hilltop castle that Picasso was constantly besieging. He invests it, bombards i...
JULIAN BARNES She found him propped against a wall, clearly very severely injured.
JULIAN SMITH I just wanted to make sure that the team didn't feel like, 'Oh, woe is me' after last week. That's w...
JULIAN PETERSON Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment i...
JULIAN BAGGINI Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, th...
JULIAN BARNES Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek ...
JULIAN BAGGINI I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.
JULIAN CASABLANCAS You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is...
JULIAN ASSANGE I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit...
JULIAN ASSANGE Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where...
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