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I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments. Charlotte Gainsbourg
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By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib. Michel Onfray
afterlife people over-you
Politicians will promise some pretty ridiculous things. They will promise a chicken in every pot. They'll promise that they'll keep Social Security solvent. They'll promise drugs for old people. They'll promise lots of stuff. But it doesn't come near the kind of promises that religion makes. The Mormons promise that if you're good while you're on Earth, you get to rule over your own planet in the afterlife. Now, there's an entitlement that goes a little bit beyond prescription drugs for old people. Bill Maher
afterlife soul gauges
Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person. Anton Chekhov
afterlife age get-better
I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me. Bonnie Raitt
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... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech. Art Buchwald
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Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow. Ali ibn Abi Talib
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Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful agency. Don Yaeger
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I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.' Drew Barrymore
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We have to get the feeling that they are on a path, in a reasonable period of time, to stop manipulating the currency, to let it float freely. It's a delicate game, it's a delicate gambit, because the Chinese are very sensitive about being pressured into things. Charles Schumer
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We have had 15 years of Chinese promises to improve intellectual property protection. They have all proved to be false. Alan Tonelson
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The CPC and Chinese government have always affixed prodigious moment to the inveterate friendly relations with Africa, Li Changchun
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We have so many cyber-dissidents in jail that we are trying to get out of there, and knowing that some of them are in jail with the help of Western companies is really frustrating. It's one thing to want to make money, to make profits. It's quite another one to become a weapon in the hands of the Chinese authorities. Lucie Morillon
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We used to take these great hikes on the Great Wall, ... From our hikes, we developed a friendship that ended up with us combining forces in forming this new Chinese company. Jack Ma
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Mythology is like a game of Chinese Whispers. What goes in at one end of the human circle is rarely what emerges at the other end. Ashwin Sanghi
chinese nine tone
Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese. David Tang
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The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint. Jimmy Wales
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It specifically says in the Torah that you can eat shrimp and bacon in a Chinese restaurant. Jason Alexander
may traitor very-true
It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one who did. C. S. Lewis
may drink thirst
If you thirst you may drink. C. S. Lewis
may idiot lion-witch-wardrobe
I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be... C. S. Lewis
may matter reason-why
But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be. Agnes Smedley
may fool stories
Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't. Aaron Sorkin
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We were trying to replace some very talented kids. He was trying to replace the player of the year, which is never easy. Maybe our expectations were not what they should have been. I think he had a productive year, even though it was somewhat inconsistent to Mike Mitchell and Gavin Hoffman. Al Bagnoli
may mathematics mathematical
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded... Alan Turing
may attention talent
You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing. Alan Shepard
may cost lovers
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may. Charlotte Bronte