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Oscar Wilde Quotes: In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
         

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.


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The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.



Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.



Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.



It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.



Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.



To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.



Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.



Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.



Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.



I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.





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The quality of life that you have is determined solely by the effort you put into giving your life value, purpose and a reason.



If you look at every flower individually, they look quite miserable. Put them together in a vase and they become a bouquet and that's quite attractive. I think about our community often in that way

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For he that once is good, is ever great.

For he that once is good, is ever great.



Paul Simon is my absolute hero. He's one of a kind. He wrote his own ticket in life by being himself.

Paul Simon is my absolute hero. He's one of a kind. He wrote his own ticket in life by being himself.



It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.

It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.



Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resembe what actually happens.

Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resembe what actually happens.



If a body catch a body coming through the rye.

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Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.

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I think there are school teachers who are on the exact same mission as me.

I think there are school teachers who are on the exact same mission as me.



Time is not something that can be measured with a pendule. Time is something that we build together within a tribe, a family, a region.

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