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" If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes. "

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" To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless. "

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" Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. "

" I mix all different oils - my bathroom at home is littered with oils; I'm really into natural beauty and natural healing. Peppermint is really good if you put it on your stomach for a tummy ache; lavender is kind of all-purpose - I think everyone should carry it. "

" Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God. "

" Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home. "

" The beauty of Maine is such that you can't really see it clearly while you live there. But now that I've moved away, with each return it all becomes almost hallucinatory: the dark blue water, the rocky coast with occasional flashes of white sand, the jasper stone beaches along the coast, the pine and fir forests somehow vivid in their stillness. "

" The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. "

" Life has sweetness to it and a beauty and a power that I wanted to celebrate. "

" Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. "

" Embrace the color of your skin and your own beauty. "

" I became interested in photography during my first visit to the United States. I was a student at a university in Holland. I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the American West. That was when I learned about the tradition of nature in American photography. "

" The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory. "

" I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life. "

" Beauty, to me, is kind, generous, and people that are humble. "

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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. "

" Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic. "

" Sunscreen is my number one beauty product that goes on even when I am indoors. "

" The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair. "

" The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own. "

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" Because beauty will be so readily accessible, and skin color and features will be similar, prejudices based on physical features will be nearly eradicated. Prejudice will be socioeconomically based. "

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" There is something special about the beauty in the unclear, the ambiguity, the in-between that you can't totally recognise. "

" Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. "

" That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community. "

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" I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I was. I do wish I had known that at the time because beauty is power. I didn't realise how lucky I was to be young, beautiful and in Hollywood. It didn't hit me. Every day I woke up, went to the film studio and just got on with it. "

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" There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire. "

" The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance. "

" I'm happy that I know how to speak 'Southern.' I spent a lot of time in Alabama throughout my life. I even lived there for part of junior high and high school, so I learned the true beauty and mastery of the Southern dialect. 'Y'all' is one of the greatest and most useful words ever invented. "