Emily Dickinson Quotes
No Life can pompless pass away - The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here -
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
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The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.
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Quite simply, my writing life has been one of relish, challenge, excitement.
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When more Chinese started coming after the Gold Rush, employed on large projects like the Pacific Railroad, anti-Chinese sentiment became shrill.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy.
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Like a steely blade in a silken sheathWe don't see what they're made ofThey shout about love, but when push comes to shoveThey live for the things they're afraid ofAnd the knowledge that they fear is a weapon to be used against them...- The Weapon (Part II of 'Fear') (1982)
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Now who are the individuals who are the greatest benefactors of the living generation of mankind? I should say: Confucius and Lao-Tse; the Buddha; the Prophets of Israel and Judah; Zoroaster, Jesus, Muhammad; and Socrates.
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Relying on words to lead you to the truth is like relying on an incomplete formal system to lead you to the truth. A formal system will give you some truths, but as we shall soon see, a formal system, no matter how powerful—cannot lead to all truths.
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If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is. You might never find out that you are useful for all the right reasons - and not all those stupid things that people tell you you're useful for.
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Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money.
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I'm not into one-night stands. I've only slept with three guys in my life and they all involve relationships.
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The life of the consciousness is boundless. It interpenetrates the world and is woven in all its imagery. Therefore, we must listen closely to our inner voice.
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No Life can pompless pass away - The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here -
