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Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C.
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I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the Nightly
shore,--
Tell me what thy lordly nam... EDGAR ALLAN POE
And still the Raven, never flitting,
Still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of ... EDGAR ALLAN POE
Come, the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The raven once in snowy plumes was drest,
White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast,
Fair a... OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
Did ever raven sing so like a lark
That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise? WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
That Raven on yon left-hand oak
(Curse on his ill-betiding croak)
Bodes me no good. JOHN GAY The Raven's house is built with reeds,-- Sing woe, and alas is me! And the Raven's couch is sp...
THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE
Thou said'st--O, it comes o'er my memory
As doth the raven o'er the infected house,
Boding to ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
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If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls will have left behind their mortal bodies... N.T. WRIGHT
You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adore... GASTON LEROUX
It turns out that speeding irresponsibly in a large truck, placing personal wealth ahead of the welf... CRAIG FERGUSON
She was a wolf. She was death, devourer of the worlds. SARAH J. MAAS
The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. CRAIG GROESCHEL
Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"Allie considered this. "Meaning?"
"Meaning, ...
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And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-""Ah, no, my friend-"
"From your point of vie...
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THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT
Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of ... MATTHEW ARNOLD
Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of ... MATTHEW ARNOLD
She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ... ANGELA CARTER The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo...
KATHERINE VUCICEVIC
No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro... J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Everyone has always said I look like Bailey, but I don't.I have grey eyes to her green,
a...
JANDY NELSON You see death is a tool to degrade and destroy people, I see it as a life lesson that I use to empow...
ANGEL RAMON MEDINA
We can’t try to outguess them anymore. Sometimes they do things just to make me do the opposite of... JAMES DASHNER
Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight,
On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . . .
... EDWARD YOUNG
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want... PRINCE WILLIAM
Family is the most important thing in the world. PRINCESS DIANA
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... CATHERINE THE GREAT
With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you... KATE MIDDLETON
