“ We've been asked much more about, 'What's your preparation?' 'How's your backhand doing?'. ”
- Roger Federer- Copy
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“ Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you. ”
- Kirsten Dunst- Copy
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“ Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. ”
- Jean Cocteau- Copy
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“ It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering. ”
- Minna Thomas Antrim- Copy
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“ Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom. ”
- Evelyn Waugh- Copy
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“ The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric. ”
- Louis Pasteur- Copy
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“ The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect. ”
- Rene Dubos- Copy
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“ Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood. ”
- Tryon Edwards- Copy
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“ Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice. Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less… ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature of matter. The psychic, alone has immediate reality, and this includes all forms of the psychic, even "unreal" ideas and thoughts which refer to nothing "external… ”
- Carl Gustav Jung- Copy
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