Ellen Glasgow Quotes
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
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With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
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Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.
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There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.
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I have given you the power of choice, and you only alternate Between futile speculation and unconsidered action.
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Along the road your steps may stumbleYour thoughts may start to strayBut through it all a heart held humbleLevels and lights your way.
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I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man.
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And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.
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The danger hidden within Weber's charismatic celebrity is … having a predisposition to imitate any one individual must always have its negative impact especially when the role model does not feel a duty … to instantiate suitable values to adopt.
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Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.
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Small- and medium-sized companies do not know what we have to offer and that needs to be changed. We must react just as strenuously on their behalf as we do for larger companies.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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Big Foster is a guy who was in line to be the head of this clan that's been up in the mountains for 200 years, because his father was the leader or the Bren'in, his mother is now Bren'in, and they're kind of royalty, so he was in line to be next. He'd been promised it from a young age, but it just hasn't happened.
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If I don't believe in a role, I can't pull it off.
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The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
