"The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme."

Growth, Destruction

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"The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme."

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"You may not be able to control the whole world, but you may learn to control your inner world through yoga."

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"Everyone has greatness in them! To bring it out, we just have to empower them."

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"Before you wear a crown of gold, life sometimes makes you wear a crown of thorns."

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"Keep your goal challenging enough that you have to change to achieve it."

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"Convert your knowledge into product."

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"It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted."

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"Pity, if one can generalize, is at the bottom of woman. When men like us, it is for our better qualities, and however tender their liking, we dare not be unworthy of it, or they will quietly let us go. But unworthiness stimulates woman. It brings out her deeper nature, for good or for evil."

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"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna."

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