L. Frank Baum Quotes
We consider a prisoner unfortunate. He is unfortunate in two ways-because he has done something wrong and because he is deprived of his liberty. Therefore we should treat him kindly, because of his misfortune, for otherwise he would become hard and bitter and would not be sorry he had done wrong.
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
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This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
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I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.
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We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.
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To be honest, I wasn't the best stand-up comic.
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I gleaned different style ideas over the years. In Southern California, there is a big rockabilly sub-culture. So when I would go to car shows, I would see women dressed like this. I had a teacher in high school that always had her Bette Paige bangs.
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I am an Indian to the core.
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If you see the illusion you are enlightened, but if you think that you are enlightened you are in the illusion!
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We consider a prisoner unfortunate. He is unfortunate in two ways-because he has done something wrong and because he is deprived of his liberty. Therefore we should treat him kindly, because of his misfortune, for otherwise he would become hard and bitter and would not be sorry he had done wrong.
