Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes
For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again.

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Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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You can't change the market; the market just is.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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I love for the crowd to feed off me, and I try to make my teammates feed off me.
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I tend to gravitate toward the realm of superstition (cures and such) and odd scientific facts (like bioluminescent shrimp and fistulated cows). I like the intimacy that I often find in the grotesque.
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Sex without love is like a goddamn business transaction. And sometimes both parties feel as if they got a good deal, but that doesn't make it any less so.
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A crippled child Said, "How shall I dance?" Let your heart dance We said. Then the invalid said: "How shall I sing?" Let your heart sing We said Then spoke the poor dead thistle, "But I, how shall I dance?" Let your heart fly to the wind We said. Then God spoke from above "How shall I descend from the blue?" Come dance for us here in the light We said. All the valley is dancing Together under the sun, And the heart of him who joins us not Is turned to dust, to dust.
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Every call to worship is a call into the Real World.... I encounter such constant and widespread lying about reality each day and meet with such skilled and systematic distortion of the truth that I'm always in danger of losing my grip on reality. The reality, of course, is that God is sovereign and Christ is savior. The reality is that prayer is my mother tongue and the eucharist my basic food. The reality is that baptism, not Myers-Briggs, defines who I am.
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For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again.