Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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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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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.
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Man's own form in space - his body - was a private prison; and that it was because of this imprisoning misery - because he was hungry and overworked and went to a horrid place called home late at night in the rain, and his bones ached and his head was heavy.
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Anything's possible in politics.
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Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.
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The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.
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God will give him blood to drink!
