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" Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards. "

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" I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture. "

" Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that. "

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" People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves. "

" Whenever I talk about the Bahamas and its beauty, I could never stop talking about my God, who has given us all of this beauty. "

" I am among those who think that science has great beauty. "

" Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. "

" There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. "

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" If I go to someplace like Switzerland, I find a lot of uptight people because they're living amongst so much beauty; there's no urgency in trying to find the beauty within themselves. If you're stuck in New York, you have to somehow look within yourself - otherwise, you'd go crackers. "

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" The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility. "

" Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty. "

" One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well. "

" I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I'd rather be imperfect than perfect. "

" Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally. "

" Ariel may look a lot like Barbie, and her adventure may be limited to romance and over with the wedding bells, but unlike, say, Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty, she's active, brave and determined, the heroine of her own life. She even rescues the prince. And that makes her a rare fish, indeed, in the world of preschool culture. "

" Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. "

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" Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation? "

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" I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands. "

Alexander Alekhine

" Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love. "

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" Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that. "

" Beauty doesn't matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart. "

" The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes. "

" My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.' "

" Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival. "

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" Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life. "

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" I just want to continue to break barriers and to show the industry and the world that beauty is diverse, and you don't have to be a certain stereotype to be beautiful. "

" There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty. "

" It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. "

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