Emily Dickinson Quotes
Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.
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The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
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I'm an old trial lawyer.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.
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Have you seen that show on Lifetime about that woman...?
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I think it need realness, you should speak on thing that you know about, that you being from, that you experienced or that you been around, you know. I think you need a good hook, good beats and good lyrics.
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I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.
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If you get conquered by ego, then you are losing the fight.
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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.
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A general problem with much of Western theology... is that the God portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy, much less a universe.
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'Reason', p. 63
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Dignity is central to the sustainability of history.
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After the gold was removed from my body I felt lighter, more free. They say this is what happens if you lack metal. You begin to think as an independent person.
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My successor, John Kerry, and President Obama got a deal that put a lid on Iran's nuclear program without firing a single shot. That's diplomacy. That's coalition-building. That's working with other nations.
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'But at least you cared. At least you were ready to do something.''This little mess,' Auger said, 'is all because of people who were ready to do something. People like me, who always know when they’re right and everyone else is wrong. Maybe what we need is a few less of us.'
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The anti-hero or hero usually has a journey or quest so they are interesting as you find out what's going to happen, what they are looking for. What are they trying to do? Sometimes what they do is heroic or comes with a price or sacrifice or maybe the way they do things isn't so great and that's when they become anti-heroes. But the journey of an anti-hero combined with a good story done well is always worthwhile.
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This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher.
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I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.
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One reason for making and exhibiting a work is to induce a reaction or change in the viewer.... In this sense, the work as such is nonexistent except when it functions as a medium of change between the artist and viewer.
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Life is problems. Living is solving problems.
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Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.
