Martin Luther Quotes

Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.

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• Mark Wahlberg, when I was in high school, people were like, 'You look like Marky Mark!' Then as I got older, they were like, 'You look like Donnie Wahlberg.' Now they're like, 'You look like Donnie Wahlberg's cousin from Massachusetts.'

  

  Ike Barinholtz
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• I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
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• Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
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• Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.

  

  Gary Gygax
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• George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• I've heard that we come on earth in pairs, get separated only to meet once again through marriage. So whoever is there on this earth for me will eventually get paired with me. Till then, I'll enjoy my singlehood.

  

  Rani Mukerji
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• It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.

  

  Larry Speakes
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  • Stage
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• When I auditioned for 'Fargo,' there was something about it that I was hungry for because of how right it felt for me.

  

  Rachel Keller
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• Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• I think it's going to be amazing to see how the world of microbiology, molecular and cellular biology, and human physiology is massively changed by microgravity.

  

  Kathleen Rubins
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• As a natural historian, I don't believe in the consciousness of rocks or the opinions of rainbows or the convictions of slugs.

  

  Jim Crace
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• I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot.

  

  Anna Paquin
  • People
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• Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Nature

• My mother was a very positive thinker; she was always active, always doing something good.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
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• The meaningful question is never what we did yesterday, but what we have learned from it and are doing today.

  

  Marianne Williamson
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• Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts.

  

  William J. Mayo
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• I'm an old man at 54, without teeth, and with rheumatism.

  

  Karl Donitz
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• Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution.

  

  Alec Guinness
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• So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near-- Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry." It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ." Yes, that is so," said the fox. But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince. Yes, that is so," said the fox. Then it has done you no good at all!" It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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  • Wished

• Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Fault
  • Virtues
  • Eclipse