Knute Nelson Quotes
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Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.
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Plans never go well for me. I just live every day like I ain't gonna live the next one.
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For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable.
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I'm absolutely doing what I enjoy.
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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
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It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.
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Sir, you have but two topicks, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
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The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place.
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When we need somebody haunted we investigate … When we investigate we do so noisily always.
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I had an interesting day's reading yesterday, with the sudden sensation of being in close contact with what I was reading. ... But as for reading how curious it is: all these books, their lore of the ages, waiting to be embraced but usually slipping out of one's nerveless hands on to the floor. When one reads properly it is as if a third person is present.
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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When you're strange Faces come out of the rain When you're strange No one remembers your name When you're strange.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.
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…the British. Haughty, white, fat, ugly, by no means sympathique, cold…
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Feathers shall raise men towards the heaven even as they do the birds:-That is by the letters written by their quills.
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If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
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If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists.
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I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.
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Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.
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In 1990, my wife and I were married in her village in southwestern Uganda. The festivities went on for three days, and all the while a couple of dozen gray-crowned cranes, with regal bonnets of sun-shot yellow feathers, were pecking and padding around in the adjacent savanna.
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It is with this as with religion: one usually believes what he has been taught.
